Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Nov. 24 comments on the right-to-work laws: every man's right to work and earn his living in the country in which he has residence is a fundamental liberty. It is a right as fundamental as trial by jury or freedom of religion. Today there is no conflict between management and labor. Management has simply thrown in the sponge and adopted the motto: "If you can't beat them, join them." The closed shop smacks of ostracism if not outright violence. No skilled artisan wishes to become a mere tool, the slave of the type...
Even so, no one expects textiles to bask in the light of a full boom. "In the last 40 years," says President James E. Robison of Indian Head Mills, "the textile industry has shown the ability to earn a decent return on investment only during periods of unusual demand caused by wartime shortages...
Democrat John C. Shershow '61, countered the Republican statements with statistics. Eighty per cent of the families in the United States, he said, earn only one half of the total income...
Since 1921 both mutual and stock life insurance companies have been taxed on their investment income (the money they earn from investing policyholders' premiums in bonds and mortgages), not on their underwriting income (the money received from premium payments that does not go into reserves). The 1942 tax law still on the books follows the investment-income principle of taxation. It was suspended and stopgap taxes levied because it allowed such high reserve requirements out of investment income, at a time when interest rates were declining, that in some years the industry was paying no tax at all. Taxing...
...native named Akva came stumbling into the military post at Ponthierville. 1,400 miles up the Congo River. Blinded from drinking denatured alcohol, he had been expelled from his tribe because he could no longer earn his keep. He began babbling incredible stories about men being kidnaped and killed by creatures that were not exactly crocodiles, not exactly men. Not far away, another native limped into the clinic of a European doctor. He had been on the river in his pirogue, he said, when its bow was seized by the powerful jaws of a crocodile and the boat overturned. While...