Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often called culturally arid, had ten symphony orchestras in 1900; today it has more than 1,000. More than 100 of them sprouted in the past two years alone. Most are community or college orchestras whose budgets are less than $125,000 a year and whose players earn their livings outside the ranks. The orchestras grew out of a deep and often overlooked cultural need in their communities...
Although a talent for football can earn a husky young man a life of comparative ease at most universities, the spartan life at College Station still draws its fair share of athletes. Last week the best Aggie team in years traveled to Houston to take on Rice Institute, and scored three times in the final three minutes and 18 seconds of the game, to whip the fired-up Owls, 20 to 12. It took the Aggies a long while to get started, but once they clicked they did everything right...
...Firing from 75 ft. at a bull's-eye only 1⅓ inches wide, White House Policeman William S. Crawford scored 289 points out of a possible 300 to win the William Randolph Hearst international pistol tournament and earn a letter of com mendation from Dwight D. Eisenhower, the man whose life his marksmanship is meant to protect...
There was no doubt that investors would scramble for the stock when it reaches the market early next year. One big reason was the magic of the Ford name. But probably a bigger reason to hardheaded investors was the earnings of the Ford company. Some 400 investment houses, which will participate in selling the stock to the public, are already being flooded with orders to buy, no matter what the price. Board Chairman Ernest R. Breech reported last week that the company will earn more before taxes this year (an estimated $700 million) than it did in the entire...
When General Motors was incorporated in 1916, the net profits of all 80,000 U.S. manufacturing corporations were $4,157,-626,000. Last week General Motors alone announced that by year's end it would earn, after taxes, a profit exceeding $1 billion. Never before in history has one corporation made so much in so short a time. In fact, after just three-quarters of 1955, G.M.'s profits amounted to a staggering $912,887,537, or more than it had ever earned in the whole of its best previous year (1950: $834 million...