Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this era of inflation, any able undergraduate can earn $600 in a summer. But for those who cannot or will not, loan facilities still make it possible to avoid cutting into school work with term-time employment...
...believe that wages are too high, but rather that production is too low. The unit cost is too high." He concluded: "It really is time a little competition was introduced into the official policy of the industry ... If we are going to enjoy a good standard, we must earn...
...flying supplies to the Arctic radar sites. At Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island last week, the owner of a beat-up DC-3 propositioned him to ferry the plane with two passengers to the mainland. The aircraft had no operational radio equipment, but it was flyable-and bush pilots earn their extra dollars by taking risks. Dahl took the job and was only minutes away from his destination when the old bucket gave up the battle and went down in the Quebec wilderness. One man survived the crash, but Whitey Dahl, all luck spent at last, was found dead...
...half-starve than surrender to what he calls "the money-code." A poet of sorts (he has published a slim volume entitled Mice), Gordon has not got much farther because he is usually too cold and hungry even to hold a pencil. Gordon's conscience allows him to earn about ten dollars a week as salesman in a bookshop-which doesn't leave much for even cheap cigarettes. Gordon's big question is not: How can I write better poetry, or how can I make a better world? It is simply: How can I make four cigarettes...
...Pink Was My Pally. Most intolerable to Mr. Hamish Gleave are the Americans-the eager-beaver young men from the State Department, who do not wear waistcoats, who take security leaks so seriously, and whose typists earn more than he does. If Novelist Llewellyn is to be believed, the anti-American feeling runs like a psychosis through much of the Foreign Office. Better, thinks Gleave, the Russians than the Yanks with their "sample cases and cigars." Better the naked power of the Soviet, which does not make him bitter about his frayed cuffs...