Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only objection leveled against the Hoover plan was that among its beneficiaries would be the top-hatted gentlemen who earn their daily bread in the fields of international finance. Quick to take this line of attack were the Hearstpapers whose big-nosed publisher, predicting that Herbert Hoover could be elected President of any country but the U. S., declared "here and now for Calvin Coolidge for the next President of the U. S." Led as always by the great internationally- minded House of Morgan, the sagest bankers and economists of the land had long and quietly been pressing just some...
Fair Return. The Transportation Act of 1920 sets 5¼% as a "fair return" for the railroads. In nine years (1921-30) the carriers failed by $2,579,000,000 to earn what the law allowed on valuations set by the I. C. C. They earned 3½% last year. This year's earnings would be at the rate of 2¼%. "If the carriers were permitted to participate in periods of prosperity equally with other business, they should equally sacrifice in periods of adversity. But they are denied such participation by law." Because they cannot accumulate reserves in good times, they need...
...indicated last week that $1,770,993,000-in-assets Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey might consolidate with the $610,296,000-in-assets Standard Oil Co. of California, forming a huge company which, in a good year, might well earn the stupendous total of $166,000,000. And an alliance between Standard Oil Co. of Ohio and the onetime Standard unit, Ohio Oil Co., was widely discussed. The reason for this hubbub was that the last day during which the U. S. Department of Justice could have appealed to the Supreme Court to halt the proposed merger between...
...fight for which it has equipped itself is surely a dubious mentor. Beyond question, the difficulties in the way of graduating classes from our higher institutions of learning are this year formidable. But the only way to solve a difficulty is to grapple with it directly. Opportunity to earn one's living is found no other way, even in the darkest hours of economic distress. The Boston Globe
...girls" might prove disappointing. And the men-. So the good dame Guinan and the "girls" will have lost only a point or two of culture. They will have gained publicity enough to assure them the position in the esteem of polite society which they would otherwise have had to earn for themselves by choice remarks about the Arc de Triomphe or the Ritz Bar, casual commentaries on the quality of Crevisses a in Nage at Pierre...