Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statistics. Examples: The 1929 U. S. health bill was $3,647,000,000;* 1,082,550 persons were engaged in providing medical care and medical commodities; 38.2% of the population were getting no medical care whatsoever; average doctor's annual income is $5,300; 47,000 doctors earn $50 a week...
Willard stated that the B. & O. would be able to meet all other obligations although it would fail to earn interest charges for the year by $4,000,000. He pointed out that revenues were running 50% below 1929, that passenger traffic in the last twelve years had dropped more than...
...honor than Dr. William David Coolidge. Drs. Coolidge and Langmuir are good old friends and General Electric collaborators. They have worked together in the same laboratory the past 23 years. Dr. Langmuir now holds the top place in U. S. chemical learning. (Only other U. S. savant to earn a Nobel Prize for Chemistry was Harvard's late Professor Theodore William Richards, 1914.) On the other hand Dr. Coolidge last fortnight attained what may well be considered the top job of U. S. industrial scientific research,* when President Gerard Swope made Dr. Coolidge director of General Electric...
...malt products, probably for the trade. The Pabst cheese business will be continued. An unusual glimpse into the private figures of beerdom was afforded recently when Hilson & Neuberger, Manhattan bankers, offered some shares in Anheuser-Busch, Inc. The company's assets were listed at $26.295,000 and its earnings for the first half of the year were shown at $346,000. The pre-Prohibition capacity of the company's plants was 1,650,000 bbl. of beer annually and Hilson & Neuberger stated that the management estimated it could earn $5 per bbl. The Pabst capacity...
...Forgotten Man? He is the simple, honest laborer, ready to earn his living by productive work. We pass him by because he is independent, self-supporting and asks no favors. He does not appeal to the emotions or excite the sentiments. . . . He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle. . . . He works, he votes, generally he prays?but he always pays. He is flattered before election. He is strongly patriotic. He is a commonplace man. He gives no trouble. He excites no admiration...