Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...migration of workers to Newfoundland's new industries and defense jobs is steadily bringing the island's top-heavy maritime economy into better balance. An estimated 15,000 fishermen have come in from the sea to earn an easier, better living inshore. With fewer hands to man it, the fishing industry itself is being forced to modernize. The trend is to big diesel craft instead of the old dory trawlers, and to fresh-frozen fish packing instead of the wearying process of salting cod by hand...
...returned to the old blank round. Rocky had boxed a bit in the Army; after his return he did some amateur boxing for fun-and broke his thumb. That small misfortune made him. "It cost money to fix the thumb," he recalls, "so I thought I might as well earn some fighting." His first professional fights were in Providence, 30 miles away. To get in condition, he used to walk there...
...four department stores), the foundation can afford to do quite a bit of last-resorting. But that is only the start of its work. By its alliance with the Board of Education, the foundation has turned the schools into neighborhood centers, given hundreds of teachers a chance to earn extra money, and made Flint more community-conscious than ever before...
...hundred and fifty-four members of '56 have accepted regular part time jobs in the University work program--and are expected to earn more than $50,000. Only 80 freshmen had accepted jobs at this time last fall...
Many of the freshman will participate in the reorganized porter system, tried experimentally last year. Under complete student management this time, some 80 men will spend 10 hours a week cleaning rooms and halls in seven Yard and two Graduate School dormitories. Each porter will earn about $300 for the year...