Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black. During the war the 64-year-old Metropolitan had become the world's leading opera house by default. It would have to earn the honor now, with European houses back in the running. Financially, the Met had never been in better shape. It was even a few thousand dollars in the black. The 3,459-seat house was 85% subscribed, the highest ever. Wagner's "Ring" cycle, one of its biggest drawing cards, will be back on the boards in new trappings. Replacing the dilapidated, 20-year-old scenery for the Ring will be new sets...
...weeks since their last contest (a closing minute loss to B. U.) the '51 gridmen have reached that point of cooperation and knowledge of Crimson gridiron principles that earn a squad the prestige of a Harvard eleven...
...need more food and more pay-and more to buy with the pay-before we'll dig more coal. Even with what you can earn, there's little to buy in the shops, that's worth buying, that is. Everything good goes for export. Well, they'd better send some of it to mine towns, if they want us to send coal to them. That's the export drive I want...
...agreed with I. C. Geddes, of the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., whose new $12,000,000 Orcades, a 31,000-ton passenger ship, was recently launched. "In addition to running costs," said Geddes, "these two ships [the Orcades and a sister ship to be built] will have to earn something in the neighborhood of $2,400,000 a year to cover interest and depreciation. A terrifying thought...
With respect to other groups, however, H.U.E.H.A.'s record is more in doubt. Mechanics earn $1.50 an hour, admittedly less than outside workers in the same classification, but they have a guarantee of year-round work...