Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earnán Ó Maille, to give him his Gaelic, was a boy of 18 when the Trouble started. Old Mother Ireland and her woes meant little to him: his family were gentry and his childhood in Mayo and Dublin had been governess-guarded. But when the guns began to pop in Dublin's Easter Week rising, O Malley's heart told him that he was Irish too. He sneaked out of the house after dark, joined a pal who had a rifle, took turns firing at British rifle flashes. Soon he had joined the Irish Republican Army...
...mother, Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wis. 49 years ago. At the Manhattan Art Students' League in 1905 she was dark, handsome, known to every one as Patsy. But soon she gagged at the sort of painting she was being taught, went off to earn her living in various advertis ing agencies, later became a public school art supervisor in Amarillo...
...customs barriers, where shippers can unload, store and tranship goods without red tape. Stapleton is well suited for such a purpose for there New York's late Mayor John F. Hylan spent some $30,000,000 to build a row of enormous piers which have failed to earn their upkeep. New York's present Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who has pushed the free port idea for years, hopes to turn his predecessor's liability into an asset by spending some $6,000,000 more...
After the War, Ernest Clegg returned to his home in Manhattan and the civilian occupation of painting. Naturally he wanted to paint the most extraordinary thing that ever happened to him, but there was a living to earn. He earned it by drawing decorative maps for magazines and decorators. Last week, however, at Rockefeller Center's British Empire Building in Manhattan he exhibited the newly completed job in which his heart had been for 20 years: the Battle of Jutland and the surrender at Scapa Flow on canvas...
Consolidated net income figures of the 140 Class I carriers showed that, whereas in 1932-34 the roads as a whole failed to earn fixed charges and in 1935 only broke even, in 1936 they showed a profit of $155,000,000. Not all lines shared this good fortune. Missouri Pacific will probably be $8,000,000 in the red; Rock Island was $13,000,000. But Norfolk & Western made $33,000,000 in 1936 as against $25,000,000 year before, Chesapeake & Ohio $43.000,000 as against $31,000,000, Pennsylvania $38,000,000 as against...