Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average of $58 for milk cows that would have brought an average of $250 last year, $37 for heifers that would have sold for $165. He is going to leave his 500-acre farm for a year or so, hopes to get a job in St. Louis to earn money for another try. Said he: "I've got to come back. This is the only life I know. I'll come back. There just can't be more than one or two years as dry as this in any man's lifetime...
...regional office for city jobs. Said the service's area chief, Richard L. Donnell: "A lot of those that come in are worth thousands of dollars in land and equipment . . . but they don't have any cash, so they're going to try to earn their family's keep and their farm's upkeep until their farms can provide a living again...
...banks' paying 3% interest on minimum balances . . . cooks earning $10.50 a day, etc. . . . Some banks do pay 1% interest but that is all. A good cook may earn Bs. 10 or Bs. 12 per day, but since a bolivar is worth about 30?, you can figure out what her actual earnings...
...half-century to accomplish a dizzying task -to embrace, instruct and elevate every child and seeking adult of all classes, all nationalities, all shades of intellectual capability: to teach the sick, the neurotic and the healthy, to inspire the genius and to give the sluggard some manual ability to earn a living. The problems which lie between this noble objective and its fulfillment, the differences between the men who attempt to carry it out and the politicians who control them, have shaped the New York school system of today...
...women, found that only 700 had retired voluntarily. And many find it hard to retire on the $100-a-month or less which they get from combined pensions and Government old-age benefits. Yet if they go back to work, the law cuts off all Government payments if they earn more than $75 a month...