Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SANITY, i.e., no bats in belfry. ††† "Earnest money got by leaving deposits on old clothes" in five letters. Answer: DYEST. Ximenes explained that deposits on old clothes refers to dye; to get money is to earn; earn out of earnest leaves...
...they can now specialize ("We are building complementary peaks of excellence," says Ivey). Instead of diluting specialities by trying to duplicate those of other campuses, each school can go right on improving what it has: the board is willing to send a student to more than one place to earn a degree...
...Administrator Echols made a good team. The company, which had lost $3.9 million in two years, last year came out of the red, showed a $3.2 million profit. This year, with 17,000 workers, almost twice as many as World War II's peak, it expects to earn more than $2,000,000 after taxes...
...Elizabeth Burke, "but most people don't save. I can show you how." Salesman Cotter had no promises of big returns to offer: if Teacher Burke would pay $16.70 a month for twenty years-a total of $4,008-she would get back $5,000. Teacher Burke would earn only 1.91% interest on her money, far less than on a Government bond. Moreover, if Teacher Burke quit the plan before ten 'years, she could not even get out as much as she had paid in. It didn't sound like much of a deal, but within...
...Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million in foreign exchange for Brazil), a U.S. Steel Brazilian subsidiary has been waiting four years while patriots argue whether it is too risky to have foreigners that close to the border zone...