Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been loaded on corporations and individuals, including $9 billion in 1951, the biggest tax boost in U.S. history. Federal, state and local taxes now take 30% of the entire national income. Taxes and inflation have dented the dollar to the point where a U.S. couple with two children must earn $6,072 a year to enjoy the same standard of living that $3,000 a year brought in 1940. And the higher the income, the higher the ratio (see chart...
...Lombardo investigated and decided that it was true: Marjorie had really composed the song herself-without help even from her uncle, Songwriter Jim Morehead. In two weeks, orders for recordings have reached almost the quarter-million mark. The song seems a certain hit, and if it is, Marjorie will earn more than $25,000 before...
...Diamonds. An experienced pilot with six years of soaring in the U.S. and the Swiss Alps behind him, Comte knew how dangerous a thunderhead can be.* But if it boosted him high enough, he could coast down to Bloemfontein. And he would earn two coveted "diamonds" for his gold gliding badge: one for an altitude gain of at least 16,700 ft., the other for a flight of at least 186 miles to a predetermined point...
Like Britain, Japan must import raw materials from which to fashion exports. And, like Britain, Japan cannot earn enough dollars with her exports to pay for her imports. Before the Korean war, Japan was on the ragged edge of bankruptcy. Since the war, Japanese businessmen have reaped huge profits from more than $500 million in U.N. orders (e.g., freight cars, transportation services, repairs to U.N. tanks, planes, ships and artillery pieces). They have enjoyed the profits without assuming the responsibilities...
...everybody in Long Island's Garden City South knew Tibert V. Anderson and liked him. He was 17 when he arrived in the U.S. from his native Sweden, but his way of doing things seemed to suit his adopted country from the start. He worked in greenhouses to earn money for college, later finished courses in a Lutheran seminary, and was ordained. In 1947, after his board sent him to start a new church in Garden City South, he acted as contractor and did a lot of the work with his own hands. Last year the red brick building...