Word: earnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...site on S.P.'s right of way; 15,000 new freight cars are on order. Southern Pacific's 1954 net of $48.7 million made it the third most profitable U.S. railroad (after Union Pacific and Santa Fe), and 1955 profits reached $56 million. To continue to earn such good profits, Russell believes that railroads must change with the times. Instead of carping about airlines, he wants to operate them. Says he: "If the train is going to be outrun, why shouldn't we go along? There simply have to be casualties in any form of progress...
...himself along a 15,000-mile course. It zigzagged up and down the U.S. from San Diego to Washington, from New Mexican firing ranges to Seattle plane plants, from SAC air bases to the tropical Bahamas over which missiles are flown. "I baby-sat for a Pentagon colonel to earn a few minutes of his time, and traveled 3,000 miles for a 20-minute interview with one general," he recalls...
...read about in Novelist Nevil Shute's satirical In the Wet), by which each voter will have voting points varying according to his educational advancement and status: if he can read, has finished high school, has served five years in the armed services, and been decorated, he can earn up to six votes. Coutts's proposals came under attack in England as discriminatory democracy, but they also won praise as an attempt to bridge the obvious difficulties and dangers in giving the vote to unschooled tribesmen. Their most important feature was conferring the secret ballot on individuals rather...
...there is the right of a human being to be a human being. There is the right of that man to earn his living. That must be considered primarily," he adds...
...fine performance. Ann Blyth does not distinguish her fairly easy part as the poet's daughter, but she does not ruin it either. The same, unfortunately can not be said of Vic Damone, the prince, who has a mediocre singing voice and not enough talent as an actor to earn him a part in a high school play...