Word: earner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given the new prices, a minimum-wage earner in Russia must work five hours for a pound of butter, as against 42 minutes in the U.S. The Russian must work four hours for a pound of meat, as against 46 minutes in the U.S. The political consequences of these figures, at home and abroad, might be vast. They suggest that Russia cannot afford to produce both guns and butter. They also show that the revolutionary regime, whose basic appeal was to the "masses" and their hunger for a better life, today still cannot fully satisfy that hunger...
...horseracing; following intestinal surgery; in Palm Beach. Daughter of Pioneer Auto Builder John F. Dodge, she shied away from high society to devote her energies to her Brookmeade Stables, won the track's richest laurels with thoroughbreds Cavalcade (1934 Kentucky Derby winner) and Sword Dancer (top money-earner of 1959), but rarely rode herself...
...Enterprises, Inc. The firm provides manuals of instruction, outlines for Sunday sermons on tithing and conscience-pricking bulletins for distribution at services (sample headline: HAVE BUDGETED YOURSELF AWAY FROM GOD?). All this leads up to "Intention Sunday," when parishioners make their pledges. Dazey's fee: $2.22 per wage earner in small parishes, $1.02 in large ones. Boasts President Harry Dazey, himself a tither: "We sell 95% of the pastors that we call...
General Dynamics may well turn that corner in due time. The directors' committee is considering selling off the money-losing commercial products end of the Stromberg-Carlson Division and perhaps also the Liquid Carbonic Division, an indifferent earner. The remainder of General Dynamics' twelve divisions are operating satisfactorily in the black, and some Wall Street analysts believe the company will show a respectable profit in 1962-provided additional write-offs on the jet program do not exceed the $5 to $10 million the directors now predict. But before General Dynamics can realize the promise it once seemed...
Newly names by taxmen as Japan's biggest income earner ($860,000) in 1960, Shojiro Ishibashi, 72, president of the Bridgestone Tire Co., insists that "money accumulates when one works to serve others. It won't if one simply tries to become rich." Ishibashi (his name means "stone bridge," which he reversed to get his firm's name) took over his father's underwear factory in 1910, has made it Japan's biggest rubber goods manufacturer by such aggressive and once radical tactics as pricing his products uniformly instead of by size, and wooing peasants...