Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often Congressmen, their old businesses and professions long forgotten, have to get re-elected to earn a living. Too often, to secure reelection, some of them yield to the demands of pressure groups instead of voting their own convictions. When assured of an income if defeated in election, they might feel freer to vote as their souls dictate, might tell lobbyists and grasping constituents to jump in the lake, might retire gracefully when they grew...
...World" and finds only one thing to commend--the fact that the war has cut the college period to three years. Most students will agree that shortening their training period without lowering standards and requirements is to the good. As Dean Donham points out, even the student who must earn his expenses will gain since he can now hold a year-round...
...recommendations without consulting even foremen, installed bonus systems which went 75% to the worker, 25% to supervisors as an incentive to push the men. Their standard "B unit," basis of pay, became hated by labor because it was increased as output rose, so that bonuses became harder & harder to earn while basic pay remained unchanged. Says Albert Ramond: ". . . We were far from blameless. We left the door open for abuses. When the depression came, abuses came with...
...Aboard many a U.S. merchantman the Commission places cadets, who work on deck or below, study betimes at a Commission school ashore, wind up, if everything goes right, as third mates or third assistant engineers. Formerly required to spend three years at sea, one year at school, cadets, who earn $65 and upwards a month, now get through their training in 22 months. Expected output of cadets from now on: 1 ,000 annually...
Asked fox-faced little Senator Harry S. Truman, chairman of the committee: What had Charley West done to earn the $11,000 Cohen paid him? Shouted Witness Cohen: "Nothing, except to cause us all this trouble...