Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replace Lloyd at Defense, Eden appointed Minister of Labor Walter Monckton. who had wanted to leave the government to earn more money as one of Britain's highest-paid legal brains. Five ministers who lost their jobs were consoled with the customary peerages. The total result left the Cabinet heavily loaded with Old Etonians (half of the 18 Cabinet-rank ministers...
...good citizen of Venezuela principally by paying its taxes; it pioneered, between 1943 and 1948, the historic agreement with the government by which the company pays half its profits to Venezuela, the owner of the underground crude. But according to N.P.A., Creole also: ¶ Pays top wages. Common laborers earn $6 a day, foremen $13, plus so many fringe benefits, e.g., Sunday pay, year-end bonuses, housing, schooling, hospital care and cheap commissary supplies, that real wages are nearly triple normal wages. ¶ "Lives in a fishbowl." Example: in response to Venezuelan suspicions that Creole might be selling oil cheap...
...Orange Bowl scouts, Oklahoma's undefeated Sooners ran a run-of-the-mill offense against Oklahoma A. & M. and plowed the Aggies under 53-0. ¶ Georgia Tech's speedy backfield ran rings around outmanned Georgia as the Rambling Wrecks wrecked their traditional rivals 21-3 to earn an invitation to meet Pitt in the Sugar Bowl. ¶ Unimpressed by the fact that the Vanderbilt Commodores had come to town with their best team in 15 years. Tennessee's Volunteers made Coach Bowden Wyatt's first season in Knoxville a success by turning back the visitors...
Here is the important thing: the lower-and middle-income groups have received the greatest share. Early in the century, only one out of every ten American families earned as much as $4,000 a year in terms of today's prices. Now, almost half our families earn more than $4,000 a year...
...International Savings Bank. Funston. an honor student in school and an ardent Boy Scout, seemed to have an assured future until everything changed in 1924. In a bank panic that year, the family wealth was swept away, and Funston, in his freshman year at high school, had to earn money to go to college. He candled eggs in a grocery store, became a messenger boy for a bank, a cashier's assistant in the local Morrell packing plant, finally got a scholarship to Trinity College...