Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...output, but that it fell during the next five days, as it became impossible to maintain this speedup. When Stakhanovism was first announced, higher pay for greater daily production was promised each worker but by last week, in plants where Stakhanovism had been regularly established, workers found that to earn as much as they did before they must now produce more goods. Plans to proclaim February as the first "Stakhanovite Month" were abruptly canceled. Shrewd Alexei Stakhanov, who has said frankly that in the U. S. he would be beaten up by fellow workers for what he has done (TIME...
...house and cow with $1,600 she received as compensation for the deaths of three sons who worked in the Gauley Bridge tunnel, claimed : "Shirl's lungs was all gone when they took them out." Later she complained: "We get two dollars a week relief, and I earn one dollar a week takin' in washin'. That helps buy feed...
...This method of treatment has been outrageously exploited not only by the out-&-out charlatan but by the ignorant but nearly honest layman seeking to earn an income by giving irrigations for sundry diseases at so much per treatment. Finally, and most unfortunate of all, there are those within the ranks of the medical profession itself, usually self-styled 'gastro-enterologists,' who have fitted, out elaborate suites of offices with one or more 'colonic lavagatories...
...President no credit for establishing the Home Owner's Loan Corporation to save impoverished home owners; the CCC for taking thousands of the land's youth off city streets and out of the alums to healthy country air to lead a normal, healthy life and at the same time earn a little money; for the NYA which is aiding 1650 students on our own campus in their quest for an education...
...life in public service. First city manager's job he landed was with Berkeley, Calif, in 1923 at $7,500 a year. Seven years later he went to Flint, Mich, at $15,000. In 1931 Dallas hired him away for $16,500, which he proceeded to earn by saving the city $1,426,000 in operating expenses in the next three years. Last year he went on the Federal payroll as Assistant Di- rector of the Budget. Toledo gets...