Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indoor Athletic Building could be easily manned by a skeleton crew of four or five men to distribute towels, see to equipment and lights, and close up the building. As for the pool, there are many qualified Red Cross Examiners in college who would be only too glad to earn some extra money by acting as lifeguards while the regular staff...
That poets have low incomes is no more news than that they are temperamental. But few people know just how little an eminent U. S. poet can expect to earn from his verse. Last week The Academy of American Poets released figures comparing the average annual earnings of poets with those of professional men, defining an established poet as one in middle life, with four volumes to his credit, and "unmistakably anointed by the muses." From his books this unlucky genius can expect to get about $250 a year. Poems sold to magazines may bring him another $250. But that...
...paid Filipino farm workers, houseboys, janitors, cooks. Half are in California, 97% are bachelors about 30 years old. "The boys," explained Dr. Hilario C. Moncado, president of the Filipino Federation of America, "do not want to go back without money or assurance they will earn a living." Another good reason is that in some cases boys are loathe to leave a country where, as a California judge remarked (TIME, April 13, 1936), they boast of enjoying the favors of white girls because they are a very superior grade of lovers...
During the summer the maids were allowed an increase of 2 cents an hour by the University after "certain requests" were made by the H. U. E. R. A., according to Business Manager Durant. This meant that the traditional "goodies," having formerly earned an increase of 6 cents on December 8, 1837 when the College attempted to stall off the A. F. of L. drive, now earn 40 cents an hour, daily, including holidays...
...stamina, usually learn the game at the age of 6, retire at 35 with a life pension. They live a dormitory life the year round, have a physical examination before each performance, never have dinner until midnight, rarely associate with other than their fellow jai-alaiers. Topnotchers like Piston earn about $2,000 a month, the average player earns about $250. Latins all, they belong to the Spanish Association (controlling jai-alai body), pay 5% of their earnings toward pensions for their old age, which many of them never reach...