Word: earnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pots and pans" tax and the "Suez shilling" on gasoline, lowered others and granted graduated income-tax exemptions for children to help their parents pay higher school bills. But Thorneycroft's boldest move was to single out for relief the 300,000 Britons-mostly engineers, executives, scientists-who earn more than ?2,000 ($5,600) a year and therefore pay a surtax on top of their regular income tax. It was the first break surtax payers have had since 1920. Said Thorneycroft: "We are determined that in the society which we seek to create there should always be room...
...write a "Bachelor's essay." In 1954 when the program began, only one student tried it (his special interest: a comparative theology study of Tillich and Maritain). Today there are ten. ¶ Last fall Iowa's Grinnell College started "four-three" program to permit certain students to earn a fourth credit for extra independent work done in special three-hour courses. Though neither professors nor students are entirely satisfied with the program, it at .least has forced the library to double the number of books it buys each year...
...Right now, we're not covering anything bigger than a bed," grinned the Portland Oregonian's Reporter Wallace Turner last week. "We're just sitting around with fat, happy smiles on our faces." Reporters seldom earn so rich a right to sit and grin as have Wally Turner, 36, and his Oregonian teammate, William Lambert, 37. Since the day in February 1956 when Rackets Promoter James ("Big Jim") Elkins told the reporting team about his conspiracy with Teamsters Union officials to operate a profitable vice empire in Portland, Turner and Lambert had toiled heroically to document...
Once at a party she took her shoes off and flipped a husky male reporter in Indian wrestling. To earn money on the side, she posed in the nude for adult art courses. Pitching for the Chronicle's male Softball team, she fell in love with the second baseman of a Mister Roberts road-company team, married him in 1953. The marriage lasted one year...
...1920s. Today, girls also get married younger (median age: 20), and married working girls quit earlier to have more babies. Moreover, secretarial work no longer has the prestige it had in the 1930s. A woman may now become an engineer, have more fun as an airline stewardess, earn more as a buyer, a librarian, a copywriter. Even some waitresses make $150 a week, double the average secretary's salary with half the strain...