Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earn this week the thanks of both Wets and Drys by saying the W. C. T. U. has a "crafty old head" in Mrs. Ella A. Boole (TIME, July 18). You have furnished the Wets another opprobrious and abusive epithet for women, of whom you mention three, whose title to honor and respect no Wet seems able to understand...
Unimpressed, R. F. C. decided that Pennsylvania had not done enough for itself to earn a Federal loan. It had no State-wide relief agency. Its Legislature, now sitting in special session, was haggling over another $12,000.000 relief bill. It had not materially curtailed expenses. In denying Pennsylvania's request Atlee Pomerene, new R. F. C. chairman, announced what amounted to a major policy in distributing the Government's $300,000,000 in relief funds...
Steel Dividends. While newshawks who had been waiting about an hour held a mock directors' meeting, irreverent & bawdy, the solemn directors of United States Steel Corp. pondered the worst quarterly earnings statements in the company's history. They finally decided to vote the regular preferred dividend, but in explaining the action to the Press Chairman Myron C. Taylor made it abundantly clear that "improvement in business and net earnings must in future determine dividend action on the preferred stock." Because a very similar statement had presaged omission of the common dividend, because Steel operations last week were...
...Vines's father owns nine meat markets in Seattle and elsewhere. His mother (separated) has a job in a Pasadena department store (F. C. Nash Co.). Remembering how her son wheedled money to buy tennis rackets, she says, "Oh, my! I hate to think about it.'' Vines now earns his own rackets as clerk in the San Francisco branch of Logan & Bryan (stockbrokers). Next year he may earn more by becoming a tennis professional. A high-school student of journalism, he hopes some day to write advertising for his father's markets...
...Behind the order was a theory new in rate-fixing: that a utility may charge for its services only what they are worth to the user regardless of the effect upon the company; Depression has reduced the value of telephone service. Under the new rates Wisconsin Telephone would earn not the time-honored return of 8% upon its investment...