Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short of tucker (food), I'm going to be short of tucker." Costs of living are cheap by American standards, but no longer cheap in a country where $14 a week is a good wage for a good stenographer and a man in the higher-income brackets may earn $50 a week. Money, for that matter, does not mean very much; there is so little Australians can buy: eight ounces of butter and two ounces of tea a week, no canned food. Milkmen and bakers are restricted to zones. Grocers and butchers make no deliveries. There are not enough...
Does an actor earn his pay if he has not memorized his part? When The Petrified Forest was revived last month in Cleveland, Eddie Dowling (Shadow and Substance, The Time of Your Life) played the leading role. For four nights keen-eyed playgoers caught the actor nonchalantly reading his lines from manuscript...
...best news in Washington last week had to do with feeding the world. Many a U.S. citizen has feared that his Government would 1) set up the vastest and most hopeless charity scheme in history, 2) earn the usual unhappy reward of the starry-eyed benefactor, 3) make the U.S. people so tired of serving as international milch cow that a new wave of isolationism would sweep the country. Last week brought signs that such fears can be forgotten...
...went up to $36,316,000, almost 50% over last year when G.M. was still struggling to convert to war. (This was still a far cry from the $53,580,000 G.M. made in bonanza 1941.) Bethlehem Steel, No. 2 war baby, gained nearly 10% to earn $6,600,000 on gross billings of $490,000,000. Du Pont, with an 18% increase in sales, turned in a 27% increase in net after paying a $31,291,000 tax bill, more than twice what was left over for stockholders...
...knowledge of symptoms, scalpels and pills is not enough to make a doctor successful. Ernest L. Boggs has discovered that fact, to his profit. Since 1925, short, dark, stocky, persuasive ex-Salesman Boggs (advertising, automobiles, insurance, candy) has been teaching his Detroit doctor clients how to earn a living. He charges retaining fees of $75 a month to $5,000 a year, depending on the doctor's earning power and the success of the treatment. He fails in one case out of twelve...