Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bankers who bring off mergers stand to collect handsome fees: about 1 % of the purchase price on a huge deal or 3% on a medium-sized one. To earn this the broker contributes copiously of his savvy, research and time. The merger talks between American Home Products and Ekco Products (pots and pans) dragged on for five years, but were well worth the effort for the merger broker. On that $163 million deal, Lehman Bros, collected...
Since the Earl of Snowdon used to earn his living on the other end of a camera, he grinned obligingly as he and Princess Margaret deplaned for Customs and milling lensmen and diplomats last week in New York. It was Elizabeth's kid sister's first trip to the U.S., a 20-day tour of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tucson, Washington and New York, and on hand to welcome her, as New York City's deputy official greeter, was a member of one of America's own royal families. "Charlotte Ford, 24, curtsied and gave...
...Herbert Summers turned from his career in mechanical and civil engineering to learn scuba diving, earn a master's in oceanographic geology at Southern Cal, land a job to study sediment movements on the ocean floor. Mrs. Sylvia P. Pauley earned $30,000 a year as an interior decorator in Manhattan for such clients as Charles of the Ritz, decided she wanted to be interested in "something more vital than chair legs." At 46, she enrolled at Columbia, got a B.S. in sociology, then an M.A. in educational administration. Today she makes $10,000 helping Job Corps graduates find...
...submitting to such exposure, actresses earn about $100 a film, and the whole production budget wouldn't pay the cigar bill on a Darryl Zanuck picture. The average is $8,300, and it is small wonder that the leading studio in the field, Kokuei, paid stockholders a 30% dividend this year. Three of Japan's big five prestige producers-who refused to resort to eroductions-have paid no dividend...
...exports were keeping pace. Export growth has been stunted by several factors: dock strikes in the U.S., the slowing of business expansion in Europe and Japan, Britain's 10% sur charge on imports, and the worldwide plunge in commodities prices, which the underdeveloped nations depend on to earn foreign exchange. And, despite denials from U.S. officials, many businessmen suspect that the "voluntary" cutback of U.S. loans abroad has also hurt the nation's exports by drying up dollars in Europe...