Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only six weeks away last week was a new Congress, and Martin Dies, never a piker, was ready to ask this time for a $1,000,000 appropriation. To earn his million, Dies produced a bigger show than ever. From Los Angeles to Chicago his agents brought Heinrich Peter Fassbender, alias Harry Smith, 23, a dark, smiling youth who claimed to have worked as a Gestapo agent for five years in Belgium, Spain and the U. S. Young Alien Fassbender, said Dies, was "sensational" in secret hearings...
Most stock-minded followers of U. S. business judge companies by the dollars they earn for each share of their common stock. But steelmen have a score card all their own for the performance of each of the U. S.'s 15 leading steel companies. This is the dollars each earns per ton of ingot-making capacity...
Students here who earn their way through college by performing as clowns, magicians, palm-readers, musicians, and lectures are getting ready for their busiest period, the Student Employment Office disclosed today...
...organizers, trying to set up unions in U. S. aircraft plants, have a prime selling point: aircraft workers get lower hourly wages (although they may earn more in the course of a year) than men at comparable jobs in automobile factories. During September, factory hands in the zooming aircraft industry averaged 73.8? an hour, automen 94.9?. Last week in one factory U. A. W. forced a showdown...
...medical decision on Loren MacKinney will not come until tomorrow, but the final announcement will be a mere formality. The fighting Tar Heel has barely been able to hobble around ever since the Brown game, and his play Saturday will probably not be more than a routine appearance to earn his letter. And Captain Joe Gardella's charley horse has not responded to treatment as well as expected, so his service Saturday will be limited. Yesterday he ran through a few plays with the A team, but Bill Brown is a good bet for the starting assignment...