Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing need for electricity? After years of what Chairman Lewis L. Strauss considers "impressive progress," the Atomic Energy Commission is beset on all sides-especially by U.S. businessmen who fear, as one said, that "just as little Sputnik has been worth billions to Russia, so we will fail to earn billions if we allow ourselves to slide into a secondary position." For how far and how fast the U.S. is traveling along the road to commercial nuclear power, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Atomic Power...
...traditionally free-trade South has become increasingly protective about its new industry, and recent signs of recession in an election year have made all Congressmen sensitive to claims that imports are throwing U.S. citizens out of work; the high-tariff camp never mentions that 4,500,000 U.S. citizens earn their living from foreign trade. Looking for a Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee to co-sponsor the Administration bill, the White House had to reach past three ardent Republican protectionists-New York's Daniel Reed. Ohio's Thomas Jenkins, Pennsylvania's Richard Simpson...
...Annie." I remember one occasion when they shot up their own fuselage and the plane came crippling in-a mech had lost a foot and Mac's hand was badly injured. Mac's rueful remark was that it was a pretty stupid way to have to earn a Purple Heart...
Card Sharp. In San Bernardino, Calif., a card stuck in the windshield of an illegally parked car bore an exchange of messages: "Dear Officer, I ran out of gas and money, too," followed by "Dear Citizen, I'll give you an hour to earn some money and buy some...
...have good connections; and we hope that a Harvard degree makes a contribution. We assume that men studying at Harvard learn how to examine evidence, present a logical argument, classify facts, draw generalizations, learn how to work and to communicate. These contribute to their education and capacity to earn. The college degree also is increasingly a ticket of admission to the desired professions and business posts...