Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brood of kittens is expected within the next two weeks. Her former protector drove her out, not desiring the confusion and flurry always attendant up on childbirth. The Stoughton janitor, however, a farsighted and economically-minded man, has plans in store for the brood. He will expect them to earn their unkeep by being rented out for mousing throughout the Yard...
...does not mean that every proposal to expand business projects or that every existing business will get credit. It does mean that capital will be advanced to those businesses which can show by a record of their past operations and an analysis of their current progress that they can earn enough every ninety days or six months to curtail their notes so that over a year or three or five years, as the case may be, the notes can be repaid...
Meanwhile it is estimated that the users of air mail run into the millions and that approximately 80,000,000 pieces of air mail are carried annually. The volume had been slowly increasing. Passenger lines needed the revenges from air mail to help them make ends meet and earn a return on capital invested. New passenger lines would hardly be set up to compete with existing lines even if mail subsides were granted. For the history of aviation shows that there isn't enough volume of business on the main routes to justify new lines any more than there would...
...month and only $500,000,000 has been provided to run the new program for eight months (May 1 to Jan. 1, 1935), it is evident that jobs will not be for a fixed number of hours each week but for only enough hours per man to let him earn what relief agencies calculate as the minimum requirements for human life...
...learned to play the organ by watching his father Sunday mornings, taught himself the bassoon well enough to play in local festivals. But Father Elgar was not impressed. He set the boy to work in a law office but Elgar soon walked out, announcing that he preferred to earn his living as a violin teacher. His first steady job was as orchestra leader in the County Lunatic Asylum...