Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reserves in new hulls, he only asked them for long-term (seven years or more) charters to haul their crude. Armed with the charters, he made firm contracts with shipbuilders, banks and insurance concerns, pointing out that the new tankers, with life spans of up to 25 years, would earn back their cost in roughly a third of their working life...
...Operation Breadbasket have forced major Chicago food chains to stock such products of Negro concerns as Mumbo barbecue sauce and Diamond Sparkle wax. As a result, Mumbo-maker Argia B. Collins, 42, tripled his sales in 1967. This year, after a seven-year struggle, he expects to earn a profit...
...would mean a further reduction in patronage refunds; or they could take it from the Coop's annual charitable contribution, which amounts to about seven thousand dollars, six thousand of which goes to the Community Fund. The Coop just does not have very much money. What money it does earn, it either pays back to the members or plows back into the business. The opposition slate for the board of directors is aware of this fact, yet it feels that it could bring to the Coop the kind of knowledge and sensitivity that could not only make more effective charitable...
...detect) the first pejorative use of the word "love." When a moviehippie says he just wants to wander around loving everything in sight, we can almost always detect the tone of a lurking scriptwriter at some pains to imply that the sonofabitch ought to get off the streets and earn a decent living. Moviehippies are often surprisingly well-fed (as are, coincidentally, most actors), generally overdressed, spend inordinate amounts of time talking about flowers, don't (the lucky devils) take amphetamines, and in more serious films lean toward sexual perversion, destroy at random, and smell...
...their income from the show, will earn Rowan and Martin about $500,000 each this year. For Martin, the success is translated into the appurtenances of the swinging life-a hilltop pad, heated swimming pool, steam bath, a den filled with electronic gadgets and a black El Dorado and a yellow Corvette...