Word: earns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband is a salesman and depends upon our car to earn our daily bread, but if Mr. Henderson needs our tires (we bought two new ones in September) he certainly may have them. We can always find another way to make a living...
...help build the desert city. Wives and children will follow later. Some projects with which the Army may keep its guests busy: laying broad-gauge track on the railway down the valley; driving a highway across the Sierras (nearest all-weather crossing is 400 miles away); farming. They will earn from $50 to $94 a month, with $15 deducted for living expenses. All they forfeit is their freedom. They cannot leave the camp without permission...
Brown proposed simply that all employes of the Government and all workers in war industries be given their overtime pay (and 5% of their regular pay if they earn over $400 a month) in the form of defense bonds and savings stamps...
...form of hyperbole. Its heroine is his wife Christina. Only One Storm is the story of their efforts to re-root themselves in Canby's home town, where Canby has bought back the old Kittredge home, and a local press with which he proposes henceforth to earn his living. But before the Kittredges can solve the problem of re-rooting, they must make the great decision: Should one, or should one not join the Communist Party...
Bearded, barefooted Jonas and his uncounted half-breed offspring are always going to earn a living "when we get twisted around." Their problem is gasoline. It costs money. Without it they can neither fish for bonita nor make Jonas' ancient clapboard truck run. When a sailor son (Jon Hall) comes home with a prize U.S. fighting cock, Jonas wagers the family furniture, the vanilla crop, anything at hand, on the fortune-restoring bird. The result is the blackest day in the history of the Tuttles...