Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe's economy (though it had failed to "integrate" the continent for the long pull) had created a new problem. Europe's booming factories were turning out all the goods Europe could use and more; the problem now was to sell the excess where it would earn dollars - that is, in the U.S. market. That meant that the U.S. would have to accept more imports, said Hoffman. ECA's target was modest - an increase in imports of "several hundred million dollars " within the next two years, amounting to only a drop in the bucket of U.S. production...
...Paris there are 16 other priests like him; in the similar Mission de France there are some 140 who earn their daily bread in factories or farms or trades, side by side with the people to whom they minister. These priests celebrate Mass in tenements or farmhouses, and in their "spare time" give help and advice to those who ask for it. Not much is known of them, in France or elsewhere. While not secret, the work of the Missions is kept discreetly quiet, to avoid attracting undue attention from the Communists, and because their priests' unorthodox activities sometimes...
Jordan was an all-around schoolboy star at Clare, Michigan, in the late '20's. He worked for General Motors for four years to earn the wherewithal to get to the University of Michigan and during that period played center and forward on the GM basketball team...
...mellow beauty of his tone and interpretations. The son of a Viennese physician, he had already won all the gold medals Vienna and Paris could offer at their conservatories. But, as he reminded ambitious youngsters last week, he had had to wait until he was 40 before he could earn "a good living" as a violinist. "I am sorry when I hear of a young artist suddenly becoming rich. Wealth and lack of worry are bad for an artist...
Under the new fare system a man who commutes to work in Boston five days a week must spend a minimum of $1.50 or 5 percent of a $30 salary. For those of us who do not earn a living wage, the burden is much greater. Yet to collect this increase, the MTA must incur a tremendous extra expense. The salaries of 500 new men $30 a week means that the MTA cannot earn a profit on its fare rise until 306,000 victims pass through its hands each week. In addition, new equipment must be bought eventually...