Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Island, off Manhattan's southern tip, turns out recruiting sales talks for radio programs. These tweak a prospect's ear with You're in the Army Now and The Stars and Stripes Forever, catch him by the nose with slogans like "Join the Air Corps and earn while you learn." One record starts with a guitar-plunked Hawaiian melody that compellingly conjures up dreams of grass skirts and whispering palms, ends with sign-on-the-dotted-line insistence: "See the glamorous tropics, the Orient. . . . This is a wonderful opportunity for you to travel to these faraway interesting...
...three weeks old when one William Ewert Berry, publisher of a modest group of British journals, came out with a weekly picture magazine: War Illustrated. Before the War ended and the Illustrated died, it had a circulation of 750,000 (record for its day) made Berry rich and helped earn him a knighthood. Editor was husky 43-year-old John Hammerton...
Through college assistance, on the average over a thousand Harvard students a year ordinarily find term time and summer employment, and in good years earn between $200,000 and $300,000 to help finance their schooling, Sharpe said...
While the students have applied for a wide variety of jobs, most of them at present are seeking work which will earn room or board or both. For a room, the students mind furnaces, cut lawns, wash windows, and do other chores taking an hour a day; for board they wash dishes or wait on table...
Affable Negro John Henry Lewis, ex-light-heavyweight U. S. boxing champion, who once hoped to earn enough money fighting to become a preacher without having to depend on a preacher's salary, took a job as liquor salesman...