Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground floor" (and earn some added income), the Met is creating a separate television department (under veteran Stage Director Herbert Graf). Operas for TV will be produced in a studio, rather than in the unsuitable Met, with "new staging techniques, maybe some new operas, and maybe some new singers." The Met's TV productions will be sold (Bing hopes) to a commercial sponsor, just like any other TV show...
With Embroidery Scissors. Neither legislative wing could claim that it had done much to earn the holiday. True, in 38 days the Senate had passed 163 measures; in 33 days the House had passed 104 measures. But many of them were of minor import, to say the most, e.g., authorization for the Marine Corps Band to give a concert at South Boston, Mass., designation of 1951 as Audubon Centennial Year. Only a few major bills, such as extension of rent control, a $2.7 billion appropriation for navy shipbuilding, had been passed and sent to the White House...
Last week, in its annual report marking the centennial of the first run, the Erie showed how the work of art has mellowed with age. During 1950, the Erie hauled 42,339,984 tons of freight and 11,038,075 passengers, to earn $13,455,493, the third highest profit in its history. With defense production stepping up road traffic, Erie hoped to better its record this year...
...room maintenance. This would make the replaced maids' wages available to students willing to spend two hours in cleaning House suites. The plan serves the double purpose of alleviating the load on the scholarship found, and at the same time makes available a job for the student unable to earn a scholarship...
...sold calico and plowshares to support his widowed mother. Later he read law in a Terre Haute law office, slept on a wooden bench in the office. When he started practice, in Shelbyville, Ill., he was glad to trudge 20 miles to earn a $5 fee. He did not have to trudge long. A Congressman at 36, Uncle Joe spent 23 terms in the House, four of them as Speaker. But somewhere along the line, Uncle Joe got out of step...