Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champagne in Portland. Nearly 50,000 men now earn $45-$115 a week in the shipyards at Portland, Ore. Nearby taverns do land-office business cashing shipworkers' checks on Thursday (for a dime or 20? fee), then selling them beer and the privilege of playing pinball machines. The Idle Hour Billiard Parlor cashes so many checks that it has installed a bullet-proof booth, with armed guards standing...
Costs are computed so closely that when the hall is running according to schedule, a profit of only one-tenth of a cant is earned for each plate. Only four full-time kitchen helpers are employed, since the Cooperative has 25 graduate student workers who earn their meals by working ten hours a week...
...believe that after the war there should be a law limiting the amount of money any individual can earn...
...paisanos, remains of the original Spanish settlers above Monterey, are a simple, indolent, pleasure-loving lot who live in happy poverty on ramshackle Tortilla Flat. Pilon and his band of rascally idlers would rather filch their beloved food and wine and sleep out under the giant redwood trees than earn their keep by chopping squids in the town below. They are probably the most harmless, insignificant people alive, but Steinbeck's story of religious faith and the good works it inspired lifts them out of their humble uselessness, preaching the essential dignity of all mankind...
Those British mine workers who are paid by the amount of coal dug often cannot earn county minimum wages while working bad seams. With the war, thousands of Britain's 700,000 coal miners have left their noxious slums and dismal wages for better-paying defense jobs or the fighting services (the draft and volunteer rate has been 25,000 a year). Among those who remain, strikes have been constant, the Mineworkers' Federation (union) demanding a national minimum weekly wage of $17, an average increase...