Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York last week, a third group of investigating Congressmen found another example of how to make money out of politics, and, incidentally, learned more about American Lithofold. While he was chief of the city's Federal Alcohol Tax Unit, James B. E. Olson apparently found time to earn up to $6,000 as a vice president for the energetic St. Louis printing firm. The committee noted that New York liquor concerns whose taxes were collected by Olson gave their label-printing contracts to Lithofold. Quite a week for legality. Not so good a week for honor and decency...
...trying to get a burr out of his shirt. Not only does his name have a suspiciously foreign ring (actually he was born in New Hampshire), but the very fact that L'Heureux is a member of the State Department could have been enough to earn him the chill on the hill. Added to that, his job is one calculated to stir the suspicion of every politico who keeps an eye on the grand old flag-as chief of the visa division, he has been responsible for the delicate and controversial business of admitting foreigners...
...state and federal taxes, seen and unseen, about $908 a year, or a little over one-fourth of what he makes. In other words, for 13½ weeks of the year, every morning when the alarm clock rings, Henry sighs, gets up, and goes to work just to earn enough money to pay his taxes...
...first, while he was still a clerk in his family's big hardware plant-Sargent & Co.-he thought he might earn an M.A. by taking just one or two courses a year. But as he went on up, from assistant treasurer to treasurer and finally vice president, he had to give up his studies...
...still growing. The number of doctors in Madras is dwindling: they die off faster than its four medical schools can replace them. All but 200 of the province's 8,500 doctors are in cities, where they can make a living; in the villages, peasants are lucky to earn...