Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, to earn some extra money for its upkeep and taxes, the huge doors of Blenheim Palace itself were thrown open to the public for four days weekly. Over the Easter weekend more than 4,000 visitors paid two shillings sixpence apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present...
...sail for a European inspection tour himself, he was brightly optimistic about his company's next 100 years. Having opened up eleven new branches in 1949, he is now planning new offices in Cannes, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Okinawa and Oberammergau. "The quickest way for other nations to earn U.S. dollars," says Reed, "is to attract U.S. tourists. Because most countries understand that now, I think 1950 will be our best year ever...
...have a decidedly infections quality. He is a past master of the "slow burn"-the process of catching on to a situation slowly and reflecting this in a radical change of facial expression. Here is where Chevalier's twitching eyebrows and sliding scalp work an hard that they aboost earn feature billing...
...There is little appeal in such a pro gram," Hoffman admitted, "but . . . Europe must have dollars to buy goods from us, and if we don't want to give her those dollars, we should let her earn them." To ease the shock, Hoffman suggested some form of direct "relief" for victims of foreign competition. Secretary of State Dean Acheson agreed that "very substantial steps" would be necessary. Said Acheson: "I should not think we could say: 'Well, we must do it and the chips will have to fall, and whoever suffers will have to suffer." I should think...
Said Manager Kachouk: "Maybe we can make him Ivan Jadan again instead of John the gardener." Either way, "John" ("I like this name") would be happy. Right now, his first objective is to earn enough money to bring his wife and son north from New Orleans to join...