Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...get their $100-to-$120-a-month jobs, applicants for the 300 stewardess posts had to be pretty, petite, single, graduate nurses, 21 to 26 years old, 100 to 120 lbs. Many of them found husbands right after they found jobs; few married pilots...
...Workers in aviation manufacture get 37? an hour as apprentices, as much as $350 monthly as foremen. Aircraft maintenance mechanics get 40? to 80? an hour, are required to be certified by the U. S. Government...
...get a clear spectrum it is necessary to work with a very narrow band of light; but, because of atmospheric distortion, the image comes in as a diffuse, approximately circular blob. In practice the light is therefore fed through a narrow slit, perhaps one-thousandth of an inch wide. This screens off most of the diffuse image, but wastes 90 to 95% of the light, squanders countless hours of exposure time on big telescopes, prevents spectroscopic analysis of the farthest visible nebulae or "island universes...
...Vice President Charles W. Kellogg of Virginia Electric & Power that private selling is short-sighted even though it does avoid underwriting costs and the irks of registration. Said he: "The buyers for the large life insurance companies are very canny gentlemen. They know just about what it costs to get an issue registered. They know just about what the spread that the company will pay to an investment banking group to sell their bonds will be. And they insist on getting both these things themselves in the price they offer for the bonds. So that, in the end, the company...
...Academy of American Poets released figures comparing the average annual earnings of poets with those of professional men, defining an established poet as one in middle life, with four volumes to his credit, and "unmistakably anointed by the muses." From his books this unlucky genius can expect to get about $250 a year. Poems sold to magazines may bring him another $250. But that is the maximum, achieved by only three or four U. S. poets. Until he was 52, the late, great Edwin Arlington Robinson made less, called it a lucky year when his verse brought...