Word: earns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many different Symposium speeches, starting from widely diverging points, ended at this same central problem: the influence of New York's critics on the nation's music box-offices, and consequently on the lives of musicians. One suggested solution--musicians should be amateurs, and earn their bread by other means. Another--to decentralize American music in various ways, instituting more purely local artists, thereby cutting some tentacles off the New York critic-octopus. There were also countless proposals for improved criticism, for broadened criticism, for more criticism, and for less criticism...
...tobacco last year; it was almost one-tenth of the national income.* Said Dalton: "We are now smoking one-third more than before the war. About 80% of our tobacco is imported from the United States . . . and we are drawing heavily and improvidently on the dollars which we earn with our exports. . . . The whole total of our exports to the United States at this time barely exceeds in value our own consumption of American tobacco. The thing has become fantastic...
...rate of nine shillings to the pound (45%) remained. But by lifting the basic exemptions and increasing allowances for dependents, the budget took income tax entirely off about 750,000 low-income Britons. Under the new schedule, a British couple with two children will pay no tax unless they earn more than $28 a week, and they would not pay the 45% rate unless they earned more than $40 a week. The change left middle-bracket taxes murderously high. Example: a married couple with three children, earning $4,500 a year, would be taxed $1,272 (a cut from...
Arriving in Paris, they soon find themselves without funds. Impoverished, they are forced to accept employment as butler and maidservant in order to earn a living. From here the play develops in farcical fashion...
...order to earn my living I became a permanent contributor of articles and illustrations to the Tag and Stunde, the only democratic papers left in town. In 1938 the Nazis came. To my early Berlin sins were added all the anti-Hitler newspaper work I had done in Vienna, and I had to go into hiding. The dominant thought of all of us hunted for political, racial, or both reasons, was to get out. Under the quota I would have to wait two years to get my U.S. immigration visa. Meanwhile, the problem was to keep alive and away from...