Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing to Cunard shareholders the cessation of operations on "No. 534," which had already cost a million par pounds, long-jawed Board Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates said: "To enable the company with financial responsibility to build ships it must at least earn the depreciation on the old ships [fixed by Cunard at ?675,000 a year]. This the company has not been able to do in this year for the first time in many years. The decline in passenger and freight traffic seems to have no limit...
...however, are more than tentative. Crosby and Gleason should see much action as the season progresses. The latter is not in tonight's lineup due to a fractured arm, sustained in the 7 to 1 rout of Technology last week. Ware and Hale, goal tenders are also striving to earn a place in the regular starting lineup...
...interest and other fixed charges must receive as outright gifts whatever they needed in cash to escape bankruptcy. Any balance in the pool thereafter might be distributed equitably among the other roads. In effect, under the I. C. C. plan, strong lines were to use the rate increase to earn a surplus with which to keep weak lines out of the ditch, to maintain the financial stability of U. S. transportation as a whole...
...just that the stockholders of the carrier earning the revenue by performing the service from which the fund arises, should be preferred over the stockholders of the carrier that does not earn it. ... To treat the advances as loans does not increase the indebtedness of the recipient carrier. ... It manifestly imposes no additional charge upon shippers...
...assisted by the state, and the problem is to find a sensible basis of classification. Accordingly, the state is to establish rock-piles along the eastern frontier, where the jobless can go to work splitting stones; and labor-camps in the interior, where the unemployed can earn food and shelter by cutting fire trails...