Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a policy will earn few paeans of gratitude, will expose the U.S. to an incessant and painful barrage of criticism from both Europe and Afro-Asian countries. But in the long sweep of history, it may be the best hope of building a world order based on freedom and justice...
Until the Cabinet explains why they held no referendum, it will appear that they were afraid that a referendum would not succeed. Few undergraduates who have devoted enough of their time to earn membership would willingly resign such an important prerogative. Such a referendum could have easily been conducted simultaneously with the one that was held earlier this month concerning union with the Radcliffe group. PBH President William Freehling '58 now admits that there would have been no Radcliffe referendum had it not been for the request of PBH's faculty advisers...
...Taft Benson: in 1957 the U.S. exported $4.7 billion worth of farm products, about one-tenth of the total output. In order to protect the nation's vast and vital export trade, argued Weeks and other Administration witnesses, the U.S. must import goods so that foreign countries can earn dollars to buy U.S. products...
...Pennsy's wintertime problems, and those of its sister roads, were one more symptom of the basic ill health of U.S. railroads. Faced with over-regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission and increasingly tough competition from trucks and airlines, they have not been able to earn the money they need to keep up the kind of service the U.S. expects and demands. In January, said Pennsylvania President James M. Symes, gross revenues slipped 15.5% from a year ago to $69.4 million, leaving the line with its third monthly deficit ($2,527,222) in a row. And to underscore...
Twelve months ago, a modern, 10,000-ton collier bound for Europe could be counted on to earn $3,570 profit each day at sea. Last week the same coal-laden vessel on the same run was losing up to $280 a day. After steaming along the crest of postwar prosperity, shipping is down in the trough of a deepening recession...