Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When these unemployment situations come along, workers are simply turned adrift. Men should earn money, not have it doled out to them.* But unless employers change their tactics toward the Unions, we shall face either Federal unemployment insurance [i.e. the dole] to care for the jobless or have a revolution on our hands. The country cannot stand these continual shocks. . . . The unions could help . . . but in great industrial centres like Detroit and Toledo large mass production employers seem to hate the A. F. of L. worse than the Communists. When depressions come, they throw their workers on the street...
...Author. Maxim Gorki (real name: Alexey Maximovitch Pyeshkoff) is 62, gaunt, wrinkled, hollow-eyed, with drooping moustaches. He wears: baggy trousers, blue workman's shirt, a blue sweater. A poor boy, he had to earn his own living when he was nine; he has been worker in a bootshop, apprentice to a mechanical draughtsman, cook's assistant, lawyer's clerk, tramp, laborer, baker. Once he tried to commit suicide; the bullet is still in his body. Though he took no part in the Revolution, for he believed the masses were not ready...
...students families are richer than they. Also many young men are eliminated from the teaching game at the beginning whey they discover that there is not the idealistic glamor to it that they expected. On the other hand, however "the man in business, though he has the chance to earn big money has the chance of losing it too while the professor is troubled with no such nightmare and in addition experiences none of the fierce and continuous competition of the business world." Furthermore, due to discounts of one kind or another, the teacher "actually gets considerably more...
...year or 10% on its actual investment. But the corporation figures that, after allowing for depreciation, its property is now worth $200,000,000-an estimate based on the cost of replacement at higher price levels, the value of franchises, patents, goodwill and other intangibles. On that basis it earns only 5%. It ups its rates to consumers to boost its earnings and its percentage of profit. The State interferes. The corporation appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court which must decide the concern's property value against which income may be figured. The court agrees that the company...
...Small companies, ramshackle independents charge more; their cabs are avoided by the city-wise. All drivers get 40% of metred receipts. With twelve-hour shifts, day men may get $30 or $40 per week. Night men, with more business, say they must drive over 100 miles per night to earn $50 per week...