Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donetz' Party Chief Sarkisov. Thereupon Chief Sarkisov promptly ordered: "The Stakhanov system must be adopted throughout the Donetz Basin and executives who attempt to hinder it will be dismissed. Above all there must be no change in the rates of payment. If a miner or group of miners can earn far above the average, let them earn it, because the country needs coal. If miners earn 2,000 or 3,000 rubles a month or more than that, let them enjoy the prosperity that is a reward for the mastery of the technique that Stalin said should be the goal...
...earn it. ... When I took this company in April 1932, it had $37,000,000 in past due debts. I could have written my own ticket. I took $66,000 the first year and $77,000 the second, and I'm not apologizing for my record...
Financial difficulties are especially troublesome to the Freshman of limited means at Harvard unless he is sufficiently brilliant to obtain some form of University aid. Statistics show that new men should not expect to earn more than $300 by part time work during the school year or the chance of academic success is drastically endangered...
Freshmen are able to earn about $20,000 from these positions, 50 per cent of this amount is paid to the 45 waiters while the remaining 60 men in outside positions receive the remainder...
...least needy. The last group is usually taken care of by loans from the University, although the amount received by each man averages a little under $100. Of the first group, it is possible to place about 60 per cent of the applicants and these men are able to earn something over $200, or about 75 per cent of their average needs which run a little over...