Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week General Templer decided that the war was going well enough for him to cancel all standing information rewards. The decision, explained the government, was influenced by "a desire to return to normal." There is still a chance to earn some $80,000 by capturing No. 1 Malayan Communist Leader Chin Peng before the March 1 deadline; after that an informer will have to consider duty its own reward...
Jacob Lawrence, 35, is the nation's (and probably the world's) foremost Negro painter. Yet his draftsmanship would hardly earn passing grades at an academic art school; his painting technique is dry, flat, hesitant; his colors are sometimes dirty, sometimes neon-bright, always arbitrary...
...rather have even mediocre pictures in their own tongue than dubbed American pictures." Dubbing German dialogue into The Moon Is Blue would have cost Preminger about $6,000. But he calculated that the cost of importing a small German cast and making the German version (about $120,000) might earn a 90% bigger gross in Germany...
...amateur code to conform with that of other nations. U.S. players, heretofore limited to eight weeks' subsidized barnstorming a year, may now compete in an unlimited number of tournaments, all expenses paid. Still under discussion: a rule, modeled on Australia's, which would permit U.S. amateurs to earn their own keep by working for such interested employers as sporting goods firms...
...some 400,000 U.S. school-board members are a familiar worry to Dr. Woodson W. Fishback, 43, an associate professor of education at Southern Illinois University (3,036 students) in Carbondale. About three years ago Fishback had an idea: most school boards might profitably go back to school to earn what their jobs are all about. From the University of Chicago's researching Midwest Administration Center Dr. Fishback got funds to set his project rolling...