Word: earns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week three budget-worried Kansas City housewives-whose husbands earn $125 to $250 a month-tested a week's menus they got from OWI. The plan called for 2½ lb. of meat for each adult, somewhat less for children: lamb roast and pie, pork chops, Swiss steak, bacon, fish...
Gracie frankly admits that she is out to restake herself. Always openhanded, since Dunkirk she had contributed most of her time and talent to British War Relief. Radio is a way to "get some bills paid." Observes Gracie of her potent earning powers: "I'm 42 [she is 44] and that's nearly middleaged, but I hate to think of it and I don't believe it. My hair is blonde but I give it a bit of fixing-I do. I have teeth that were made by some mechanic and I wear glasses, and my legs...
...Goethe's: "That which the fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess...
...This is the simplest way," he said. "Industry must accept the principle that it cannot earn excess profits during war-time. The only alternative is for the government to let it take all the profits it can and this Congress and popular pressure will not allow...
...pickers are able to ignore the distractions around them they should be able to earn as much as four dollars...