Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fund employs no salesmen, investigates no more than one out of 500 applicants. The Fund does not issue policies for more than $35,000 and the average is around $3,000. Dr. Mackie estimates that the majority of his policyholders earn less than $2,000 a year. Clergymen live long, rarely commit suicide, and, says Dr. Mackie grinning, "darn few preachers are murdered by their wives...
...from Oxford, where he once studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Barr-Hutchins liberal arts ideal Educator Hutchins described before sailing for a European vacation last week: "St. John's is an excellent place to try out the idea of educating people to live instead of to earn a living. There will be emphasis on the classics - not on the languages, but on great books. We want to get away from present liberal arts courses, which are dreary because they are just a mass of history and social science and badly taught language and literature...
...brother Harold, a church organist, was also a golf professional and had taught Bull the game. Bull would drive a ball out of sight and make any kind of trick shot with any kind of club. His short game was eccentric but he was plenty good enough to earn a living as a professional...
...raise the existing average 25% income tax on British firms to 29% in the case of partnerships, 30% in the case of corporations. Exempt from such super-taxing for Rearmament are to be salaried employes, doctors, lawyers, accountants and professional people generally-very few of whom in Britain earn as much as $10,000 per year...
Example: Jones, Ltd. earn $20,000. One-fifth of the difference between that sum and $60,000 is $8,000. So from their $20,000 income, Jones, Ltd. deduct $10,000 plus $8,000 and pay Simple Simon's Super Tax of 5% on $2,000 of profits, over and above their normal...