Word: earnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attitudes. Five years ago, In the Wet set him up, after a long career in fiction, as the empire's most promising angry middle-aged man. Jumping 30 years into the future, Shute's 17th novel described a commonwealth of flourishing dominions (where citizens' merits could earn them extra votes) fettered by a mired-in-Socialism United Kingdom that approximates "a home for incurables." A tired, aging Queen Elizabeth II is "in the middle of a first-class constitutional crisis. The job of ruling England has become so unattractive that her children won't take...
Round Table was taken to California by Kerr and promptly began to earn his keep on the hard-surfaced tracks that were to his liking. Kerr brought him east for the 1957 Kentucky Derby, where he finished a good enough third behind Ralph Lowe's Gallant Man and Calumet Farm's Iron Liege, then passed up the prestigious Preakness and Belmont to campaign against easier pickings in California. By season's end Kerr...
Gone from the list of leading money winners are the grand old tournament veterans-Sam Snead, 44, Ben Hogan, 46, Jimmy Demaret, 48, Lloyd Mangrum, 44, Byron Nelson, 46, Gary Middlecoff, 37. Still fine golfers, they now find it easier to make big money on their reputations. They earn up to $100,000 a year endorsing a manufacturer's golf clubs and balls, drawing royalties on every club sold bearing their name, holding down cushy jobs at swank country clubs, where they charge up to $50 a lesson. For a further fee, they sing the praises of cigarettes, fishing...
...study trip to the U.S. was the pretty daughter of Japan's late Dictator Hideki Tojo, who declared war on the U.S. in 1941 and was hanged for war crimes in 1948. Bright-eyed Kimiye, 26, a graduate student of international politics at Hosei University, wants to earn a doctorate, preferably at Columbia University. For her master's degree she is finishing a 300-page master's thesis on "The Rise of Nationalism in India...
...many applicants wanted laborers' jobs that the city has no plans to hold any more examinations for two years. For weak-backed or stubbornly intellectual students, there was one note of cheer: if they studied long enough to become a psychiatric social service worker, they could eventually earn more ($525 a month) than the city's laborers, although they would have to start lower...