Word: earner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holler" near Isom, Ky., where he lived with his widowed mother, six brothers and sisters. At six, Martin was gathering coal in an abandoned mine shaft to provide the family's fuel. At 16, he went to work in the mines as his family's chief wage earner. When Martin left home to travel to Catoctin Mountain, his mother told him: "Don't come back, son. There's nothing for you here." Still another is Clyde Melton, 16, a Negro from New Haven, Conn., who wants to become a cook. Says he: "I need a little...
...plant and equipment in 1964. Many economic experts believe that capital budgets will rise more than the anticipated 10% this year-largely because they expect that the tax cut will inspire the U.S. public to spend more. The cuts will average out to $133 a year for each wage earner. It is still too soon to measure how much of his saving the consumer will spend, but early signs are hopeful...
...miles of land is turned over to cattle for grazing. More than 180,000 ranchers, as well as 788 meatpacking companies and 17% of Argentina's labor force of 6,000,000, depend on cattle for their livelihood. Beef is the nation's second largest foreign exchange earner, after grain, and last year accounted for nearly a quarter of Argentina's $1.2 billion total exports. This year, beef sales abroad will rise 30% to $392 million...
...hopelessly shoddy, Meissen china has retained its traditional quality, commands a steep price wherever it is sold, e.g., a twelve-place dinner setting of the bestselling "Blue Onion" design costs $500 in New York. Next to optical products and cameras, Meissen is East Germany's best hard-currency earner...
...Reader Bennett's figures are correct. But the $13 figure is what the Administration figures the "average taxable wage earner" would pay specifically for medicare, eliminating the portion of the increased payment that would go to old age assistance...