Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live to earn her dinners...
Slow Going. But the Senators would find Little a hardheaded witness with a plausible story to tell. Little has never made a secret of his belief that Yankee workers no longer earn their high wages. When he bought eleven Southern mills (TIME, May 27, 1946), he said he found that his Southern workers' productivity was one-third higher than that of his New England crews. One reason was that Southern plants could be run on three shifts; most New Englanders refused to work night shifts. "When you can't work your plant three shifts a day," said Little...
Simon & Schuster found that the average mystery book in 1948 hardly sold above 3,500 copies, "poor bestsellers" seldom topped 50,000. At that rate too many books failed to earn their production cost...
...motion to abandon the assembly; all voted against him, except his one fellow Communist. Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer, Cologne's ex-mayor and one of Germany's most respected public figures, took over as chairman. Said he: "A start must be made so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world...
...they have writ ten 150 songs together, sold 6,000,000 copies of sheet music, made the hit parade two dozen times and first place nine times (among their hits: I'll Walk Alone; It's Been a Long, Long Time; Give Me Five Minutes More.) They earn $150,000 a year. Jule, who was born in London 42 years ago, was a piano prodigy who was guest soloist with the Detroit Symphony at eight. Sammy, 35, was brought up on the sidewalks of New York, set a hooky record at Seward Park High School"which still stands...