Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never had any idea Lew was around. He escaped just because he could throw farther than the rest of us." Lew traded rocks for a baseball in order to get a job at the local American Viscose plant, whose factory team needed a pitcher. He improved fast enough to earn a baseball scholarship to the University of Richmond, and there a Yankee scout found...
...Fazilet, was another. Fazilet's father, Prince Mohammed Ali, is a cousin of Farouk's. He fled Egypt when Farouk did, and got most of his vast wealth out to Europe. At first, Papa was not keen on a royal romance. "I reared my daughter to earn her own living," he was quoted as saying. "A Queen has responsibilities and must give up many of her rights as an individual...
Johnson was apparently referring to the newly-stated complaint that although the organization might make it possible for more agents to earn more money, student customers might be forced to pay more for a product than any increased profit to agents would justify...
...products and raw materials. Last week the railroads were caught in a dangerous vise, whose jaws were both inflation and deflation, whose effects make a case study for economists. From the headquarters of roads from Boston to San Francisco came gloomy news of a sharp setback in earnings: a 40% decline for the Pennsylvania, the nation's largest railroad, a 60% nose dive for the New York Central, 15% for the Santa Fe, 25% for the Rock Island, 11% for the Boston & Maine. All told, said the Association of American Railroads, railroad profits for the first six months...
...domestics know only too well what wages they can command. An experienced live-in maid or cook frequently draws down as much as $250 a month v. $150 a few years ago, and a couple gets $600 a month, all plus free room and board; even live-out maids earn upwards of $200 a month, and the increasingly popular part-time cleaning woman averages $10 a day. What is more, the servant chooses the family, not vice versa. Says Mrs. Betty A. Heinke, who runs a California employment agency: "First, I ask the client's telephone number and address...