Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made of good clay." After eight months, Bigelow was released on parole. Before leaving he made Ward promise to look him up at the end of his term, asked what job he would want. Replied Ward: "Your job, H. H." "All right if you can earn it," said Bigelow. Next year Ward went to St. Paul, took a small job with Brown & Bigelow, worked steadily up the ladder. In 1930 he was made general manager, a little later vice president...
...about 1900 students filed applications with our office. I believe the increase at the present time is largely due to a tendency upon the part of needy men to register earlier this Fall. The tendency, in turn, apparently is due to the fact that the average man needs to earn more money this year than last. This seems to indicate that the savings of many families are almost exhausted...
...Communist Minor, 49, thrice married, is the son of a Texas judge. For years he edited the Daily Worker, drew savage cartoons for the old Masses. On a soap box before the NRA factory, he yelled at its workers: "Comrades! Most of you are non-union members. You must earn a living. But don't scab on your fellow workers. Your factory carries a picture of the Blue Eagle, of course. They all do. But the Blue Eagle is a blue buzzard for the workers. So come on out and strike...
...Scott-Paine ran away to sea. Before the War, : his early twenties, he became interested in airplanes, flew so recklessly that IK was jailed for "suicidal intent." Stranded in the South of France, he joined a circus, got 20 francs a bout for boxing with anyone who wanted to earn ?3 by staying three rounds. An Englishman who did it made friends with Scott-Paine, took him back to England, started him in airplane building. In the War, Hubert Scott-Paine became a director of Imperial Airways, to whose board he still belongs. In 1921 he helped build up British...
...simple bit of arithmetic: add to $6,000,000 (interest charges), $4,000.000 (guaranteed dividends on the preferred stock of its subsidiary, Armour & Co. of Delaware) and $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 (for deprecia- tion) and the total makes over $17,000,000 that Armour & Co. must earn before it will have any profits to pay dividends on its own preferred and common stock. Adding the fact that some $10,000,000 of unpaid dividends have accumulated since 1931 on Armour & Co.'s preferred stock, Mr. Lee was conscious that save by a re-organization there...