Word: earns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These two latter elements of the system, free trading and lending, can best be understood in the light of their joint purpose: to earn a maximum return by lending capital to those parts of the world which show most promise in undeveloped resources. The greatest stimulus for development is a ready market, and so, because basic foods, for instance, could be raised more cheaply in new countries, Britain opened her home markets to farmers and ranchers of the U.S., Argentina, the Dominions. At the same time British investors lent money to build railroads, grain elevators and packing plants...
...more employes, pays 35.3% more compensation. But with all this the Government has made only 3.3% more train-miles than during the last year McNear ran the road. And while the employes work one hour less than the 8½-hr. day they formerly put in, individually they earn less money-$7.96 per day v. the $8.75 McNear paid them...
...other stockholders, who had seen Brewster earn less than $300,000 while the Miranda threesome were due to earn $5,400,000 (and had already earned $2,800,000), all this looked somewhat fancy...
...should be. His forelegs were slightly knock-kneed and he ran with his head held high like a show horse. He seemed destined to be no greater than his mother, a commonplace selling plater named Quickly. Since no one wanted the Count, he was put to work to earn his oats...
...Alphand had to find a way to earn her living. Her friends had long admired her repertory of some 200 salty popular songs. Helped by a group of them (Lady Mendl, Henry Bernstein, Elsa Maxwell), she began appearing at a French hangout called Le Petit Palais. Among Manhattan's Francophile intelligentsia, her nostalgic music was sensational. Man hattan's Liberty Music Shop issued an album of Alphand recordings, quickly sold 1,000 copies...