Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line. Cochran first erased Hoppe's slim, eight-point lead, then built up a 48-point margin to keep his world's championship with a grand total of 4,819 points for the go 60-point blocks. To both it seemed like a hard way to earn $6,000 and $4,000, their 60-40 split of the total gate receipts (after expenses...
Take a Chance. All this was disconcerting but not discouraging to Chicago Corp.'s bantam-sized president, Richard Wagner, 48. Born of poor immigrant parents in a down-at-heels section of Chicago's North Side, Dick Wagner started to earn his own living at 14 as a bank runner in Chicago's Continental bank. He scooted up fast. At 16, he was secretary to the president; at 19, he was writing speeches for bank bigwigs; seven years later he was a vice president...
...into quite so picturesque a combination of gruffly kind metropolitan types. The trouble is more detailed than that. The pretty-enough "background music" (one of Hollywood's worst habits) reduces some of the storytelling from the sadly tender grandeur which the players and the monumental closeups earn to a sort of oversweetened, high-grade M. G. Mush...
Presidential Beliefs. What kind of President will Truman be? During the campaign, when the possibility of his becoming President was often discussed, some political pundits labeled him the "Democratic Coolidge." He will probably earn his own proper label in time. One thing can be said with certainty: he will be a great change from Franklin Roosevelt...
...C.I.O.'s streak of socialistic thinking, was labor's wholehearted agreement that a "system of private competitive capitalism must continue to be the foundation of our . . . expanding economy. . . . The inherent right of management to direct . . . shall be preserved. . . . So that enterprise may develop and expand and earn a reasonable profit, management must be free as well from unnecessary governmental interference...