Word: earns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood can also take out as many dollars, above the $17 million limit, as British films earn in the U.S. (in 1947 they earned $4 million). But even here Wilson had won a canny advantage. U.S. producer-exhibitors for the first time would have an interest in promoting British films in the U.S., because that would help them get more dollars out of England...
...pattern of his life cooled into finality before he was 25. Says Author Weber: "Having been unable to adjudicate between the claims of poetry and the need to earn his living, Crane found that he could obtain relief by evading the issue. He ... trusted in the natural benevolence of circumstances. . . . The suffering . . . was made tolerable only by his optimism and acceptance of evil as a necessary component of reality. The devices which he had originally employed as tools for innocent purposes-alcohol to stimulate his poetic gift, sexual indulgence for the love which it engendered-became narcotics, less adequate...
...Unless a woman can earn $4,000 a year-or maybe $5,000," declared ex-Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, "I think it is absurd, antisocial, and uneconomic for her to work outside the home...
What did Britain have to do to avoid pauperism? In the past two years, Britain has spent abroad $4 billion more than it had earned, expects to spend this year at least $1 billion more than it is likely to earn. British planners know that a day of terrible decision will arrive about April 1. Unless by then ERP is not only assured, but aid's arrival is guaranteed by a definite early date (midsummer or early fall), the British Government will have to slash imports. It can no longer afford to shovel in some $200 million a month...
...tour was going swimmingly: the lead was seesawing, and the money was rolling in. There was talk of extending the present schedule of 70-odd matches. Kramer, who gets the bigger percentage of the gate, stands to earn $115,000 or more...