Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just Looking. When he is asked for advice on how to become the publisher of a great paper, Arthur Sulzberger always amiably replies: "Do as I did-marry the boss's daughter." But his remark is not in the Times tradition of fairness; Sulzberger did much more to earn his job. Manhattan-born, the son of Cyrus Leo Sulzberger; a cotton-textile manufacturer, philanthropist and later anti-Tammany candidate for borough president, Sulzberger was brought up on the Times, went to Horace Mann school and Columbia College. There he was on the swimming team, danced as a chorus...
When inflation began to get out of hand (1947), they [i.e., the Socialist planners] cut the investment program. When the overseas balance got critical (1949), they tried to ... increase investment that would earn or save dollars. But this is an essentially creative act, and the planners have discovered to their chagrin that they cannot perform it. Their day is therefore over, and that of the businessman-who can do it-has arrived...
...runs crossed the plate in the second, and Dave Gilbert went on to scatter seven Gold Coaster hits and strike out 12 to earn...
...divorce to marry Nancy. Mrs. Randolph prescribed for him a fatal dose of tartar emetic instead, and Nancy was kept at her menial work. She was a lot better off the day the self-widowed Mrs. Randolph tired of torturing her and chased her out of the house to earn her own living. Nancy did better than that: she went North, met courtly, wealthy old Gouverneur Morris, and married him-fictionally and in fact...
...which $12 million was cash. (The rest was to be paid out of Toni profits.) But the deal certainly gave Gillette's profits a well-barbered look. Last week Gillette President J. P. (for Joseph Peter) Spang Jr. announced that in 26 months Gillette had earned $8 million after taxes on Toni. With Toni sales still rising, Gillette could expect to earn back the remainder of the cash payment before year...