Word: earns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though a skilled laborer can work fast enough to earn $14 a day at it, President W. W. Hall of Idaho College, after an all-day, back-breaking job with the short-handled hoe, earned only $1.25. Faced with more than 70,000 weedy beety acres, the Governor offered as much as a week off .with pay to any State employe,who would turn to. To meet the crisis, WPA projects in all beet-growing communities were abandoned, able-bodied reliefers were drafted. Holidays were declared so that tradesmen could help. They did their best, but to farmers...
...Jersey's handsome, aristocratic, hard-of-hearing Governor Charles Edison is no routine politician. Independently wealthy as head of his father's "Edison Industries," he went into public life to earn his pay, not just to get it. He was made Assistant Secretary of the Navy by his great & good friend Franklin Roosevelt, later ran for Governor in 1940 as a personal favor to the President. As Governor, he has waged a bitter, housecleaning battle to purify New Jersey politics by sweeping out the ubiquitous Hague cockroaches...
...last wartime Kentucky Derby (1918) launched the career of a great U.S. race horse: Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Exterminator (Old Bones), who went on to win 50 out of 100 races, earn more than a quarter of a million dollars. Among the 15 three-year-olds who went to the post at Churchill Downs last week, none could hold a hoof to Exterminator. But this year's Derby drew nearly three times as many spectators (80,000), was worth four times as much ($64,000) to the winner...
...presidency on a part-time basis,* and without salary. Feeling that "ASCAP ought not to be a one-man show," he plans to build a smooth-running organization to do the active work. Quipped Mr. Taylor: "I hope to get the presidency to the point where I will earn my salary...
...windows. Eight spring-struck shareholders (of Federal's 1,900) lolled in their chairs, babbled of brook trout and pheasant. One shareholder stirred, asked President Clarence H. Nichols if there was anything interesting about the company. Droned Mr. Nichols: "No, it's the same old thing, we earn our charges and a little bit more...