Word: earnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compromise seemed in the wind. But even if none were reached, said the Manchester Guardian judiciously, the results might not be all bad. "Then the notion that a good film must cost more than it can earn at home will have to be deflated. That will do Hollywood no harm and our own industry a power of good...
...next twelve months, he said, Britain must import $6.8 billion worth of goods, even to keep something like her present austere standard of living. In that period Britain cannot hope to earn by exports more than $5 billion. Even by using up the rest of the U.S. loan, Britain would end up in the red. And in less than a year, there would not even be the loan to fall back...
...leading practitioner of existentialism is France's stubby (5 ft.), scholarly Jean-Paul Sartre. His Age of Reason is a dolorous, idea-clotted novel full of moldy characters and philosophic yawpings about life. It is sure to win its author some critical praise. It is not likely to earn his fashion many wearers...
Nine days later, the six reached Lethbridge, 3,600 miles away, where they heard that miners could earn $15 a day. Within an hour, Cameron and four of his friends had jobs at a Lethbridge Collieries Ltd. mine. The sixth had a job near...
George VI and Elizabeth, home from Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), had a new tribute for their scrapbook, painstakingly pieced together by 68-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield (whose services to the Crown earn him roughly $515 a year). He cheerfully reported the world's recognition...