Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, a tie with William Zorach's Spirit of the Dance (banned by Roxy, restored last week to Radio City's Music Hall) as the most interesting statue of the year. Sculptor Fiene admits no hobby beyond his sculpture, but he owns two Siamese cats, makes them earn their daily herring by posing for him and his wife, Painter Rosella Hartman...
...wages down to the Chinese coolie level. In many a sweatshop the "U. S. standard of living," which the textile tariff is supposed to protect, had declined to a point where workers could subsist only with the help of charity. Girls were sleeping in subways because they could not earn the price of a bed. Hospitals were filling with women who had worked themselves into a state of collapse for a pittance...
West. Oregon State, leading the northern division of the Pacific Coast Conference, needed one more game to earn the right to meet Southern California, southern division champions, in the playoff. It looked easy: the last game was against University of Oregon, division tailenders, who had won only two games all season. In the middle of the second period, at Corvallis last week, Oregon was leading 21 to 20. Two minutes before the game ended, Oregon State, trying desperately to catch up, had slipped farther behind, 26 to 23. Red MacDonald. State guard, holed a long basket, but 20 sec. before...
...miner quartet. Putting deed to thought, he telephoned the mine, arranged to have the singers shipped down by special plane in time to perform next evening at a return dinner to Minister McCrea. A second message stipulated that the miners must remain dirty and wear their work clothes to earn their...
...present production rate American Tobacco on Luckies alone will make $46,000,000 less than last year, may earn no more than $3 a share toward its $5 worth of 1933 dividends. Last month American Tobacco gave up its usual $1 extra dividend and last week Mr. Hill, worried by stockholders' suits, renounced for the future the $380,000 he might have had as a management bonus. But what most worried Mr. Hill was 10? cigaret sales. Present estimated annual rate of production gives to two of the ten centers alone 20% of the total, makes the "Big Four...