Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them, not counting military spending. But the era of "donation diplomacy" is past. "The world must soon stand on its own feet," says Clarence B. Randall, chairman of the U.S. Commission on Foreign Economic Policy. "It must come off the American dole, as it wants to do, and earn its own way, as it is determined...
Cheese & Scarves. Many U.S. tariff policies are still geared to the outdated habits of a nation trying to get onto its economic feet. Others are contradictory, and even self-defeating. Examples: CJ U.S. Marshall Plan experts helped the Danes expand their blue-cheese industry, so that Denmark could earn the dollars it needed to buy U.S. goods. But when the Danes started selling their cheese, the U.S. imposed a quota to keep all but a sliver of foreign blue cheese out. CJ The U.S. lays great stress on the 1921 Anti-Dumping Act, which protects domestic markets from the unfair...
...harmonizing in church or school gatherings when the original Mills Brothers, the Andrews Sisters and the Modernaires were first warbling their close harmonies on the radio. The outfits usually got their break with a performance on a disk-jockey show or an amateur hour. Their commercial success (some now earn five-figure incomes) probably depends on listener identification, i.e., the more amateurish the singers sound, the stronger their appeal for the jukebox set. As a result, most vocal groups get best results with music that has a country or hillbilly flavor, with primitive harmonies and tunes that would go over...
...each day people from every corner of the country send orders to buy and sell shares which represent an ownership interest in nearly all the leading corporations in the country. In this one place Americans have free access to an ownership stake in 1,100 corporations--companies which together earn about half of all the net profits after taxes reported by all United States companies, pay half of all the dividends disbursed, and provide jobs for more than 11 million workers...
...problems that he will face in actual practice nor the specific procedures of his accounting firm. Therefore he still has much to learn from his employers. By the end of four or five years, however, he will be handed independent and important assignments and may expect to earn around $6,000 a year. If he becomes a supervisor, a contract manager, or later a partner, of if be establishes a practice of his own, his income may be $10,000 to $25,000 a year. Some certified public accountants earn $100,000 a year...