Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writers, too, earn an onion. There was a time, Knopf recalls mournfully, when editors were not compelled to "conduct elaborate correspondence courses" for "would-be and indeed practicing novelists." The fellows are unreliable, snorts Knopf: "We pay substantial advances for books that never get written." Worst of all, they are self-important: "You can offer a grade A milk and a grade B if you are in the dairy business, but authors are vain in a way that cows...
...good research professor in Russia can earn around $36,000 a year, with a number of interesting fringe benefits such as chauffeured limousines, free hospitalization and summer villas. Their income tax is low, too. Furthermore, scientists are more or less the pinup boys of the Soviet Union. Is it any wonder that a Russian high school boy, unlike our own kids, thinks science is a likely profession...
Another was that India's exports would prosper and earn more foreign exchange. They have not. In London last week there were whole warehouses full of unsold Indian tea. Increasing competition from Japan has prevented any significant increase in foreign sales of Indian cotton goods. The jute industry, faced with competition from Indonesia and Pakistan, is so deep in the doldrums that more than 10% of India's looms are being held idle in an attempt to maintain world jute prices...
...estimated 20.8 billion tons of iron ore and 26 billion tons of coal. Indian steel production last year was 1,900,000 tons (v. Red China's 4,000,000 tons). Indian exports-manganese, tea from Assam, jute from Bengal and cotton cloth from Bombay and Madras-will earn about $1.3 billion this year...
...based on the proposition that Capital would have new planes to fly the route. Since then, Capital's financial position has deteriorated so badly that it had to postpone plane deliveries indefinitely. Without the planes Capital may not get the route, but without the route it cannot earn the money to buy the planes...