Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, and the musicians come from miles away to play for him. Bandsmen, who must join the musicians' union, get the standard minimum, $30 for three hours of recording. Soloists, who do not have to join the union, are paid from $10 to $50 a side, or earn royalties if their names...
...chief fault was its crudeness. Its basic principle: any corporate earnings above 8% on invested capital were "excessive," should be taxed at 30 or 65% (later reduced to 20 or 40%). This was in effect to treat all capital as though it bore the same risk, should earn the same return. But "invested capital," an artificial concept, was only one among many income-producing factors. Results were a tragicomedy of discrimination. Small, growing, high-profit companies found themselves in higher tax brackets than mature, stabilized giants. Corporations with little capital other than their wits (advertising agencies, etc.) paid at higher...
...President Ernest Martin Hopkins, U. S. Senator Claude Pepper, Minnesota's Governor Harold Stassen, Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium, Cinemactor Fredric March, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Pollster George Gallup. Self-supporting U. S. college students (about half of all undergraduates), he reports, earn $32,500,000 a year, get some $90,000,000 a year in scholarships or loans. Most of his book is devoted to tips on how a poor boy can go to college. It also relates many another interesting fact. Samples...
Bombardier Lamasch's work was as good as done. He will earn $22 for one rehearsal, and one performance of the 1812 Overture. His job: standing by while an eight-man gun crew fires a 14-round salvo on the anti-tank guns...
...past decade steeplechasing has come a cropper. With tracks sprouting up all over the country (thus creating a greater demand for horses, horses, even second-rate horses), more & more owners sent their dubious or jaded thoroughbreds into claiming races to earn their oats, in stead of converting them into jumpers...