Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physically, France is sound-as sound as a dollar and sounder than the franc. Unlike Britain, France can feed herself, and well. With a fertile country, a smiling climate and 42 million intelligent and reasonably hard-working people, France should be able to earn her own fat living. French industrial output is running 13% ahead of the record year...
...weapons" (e.g., U.S. atomic artillery) which might reduce the need for men on the ground. But economics is still at the root of the trouble. Forced to guard its solvency by gambling with its safety, Britain is exporting a sizable fraction of its arms production (e.g., Centurion tanks) to earn foreign exchange...
Your Nov. 3 personality piece on E. E. Cummings (no relation) proves the need for some sort of national subsidy for poets and day, a writers. Otherwise where would E. E. be today, a man who couldn't earn his bread because he wouldn't sell his head...As for E. E.'s remark that he's glad he's no longer young because his generation "had something to revolt against, the new generations have only anarchy," that is sheer nonsense. For one thing, we haven't got anarchy (which might have good points...
...NBCTV) stars Cinemactor Robert Cummings in a filmed series about Robert Beanblossom, a bumbling real-estate salesman who is "a sort of likable jerk." He sets the tone of the leading character in the first show as he barely holds to his job and desperately tries to earn some commissions ("Even my friends are making more money than I am, and they're unemployed"). The gags are broad (Cummings to a vamp: "Be careful, I'm already committed." Vamp to Cummings: "You may have to be, when I'm through with...
...second big step was the establishment of the Bursary Fund when the Yale Residential College system was introduced in 1933. Students may now work as anything from library assistants to clerks, for 16 hours a week, and earn full board expenses. The Bursary Fund at present contains over $150,000 to be expended each year in assisting students...