Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their catches. A barefoot boy with a 10? rod, a trailer tourist who goes out on a $2-a-day party boat and an elegant sportsman with a $100 rod and a $1,000 reel have each an equal chance to win some of the $15,000 in prize money. The No. 1 prize is the Miami Beach Rod & Reel Club's silver statuette awarded to the angler who lands the biggest sailfish...
...adaptation of the profit-sharing idea, was worked out after Jay Hormel figured that 80% of his Austin plant's income went to employes in wages, 20% to stockholders in dividends. Although last year's $1,031,000 net income would have given workers no extra money under the plan, Packer Hormel thinks his program may inspire efficiencies, hence increase profits...
...employes' 80% fails to cover the pay they have already received, they will get no more. If it more than covers their pay, the surplus will be divided 80-20 until the workers have been given four weeks' additional pay. After that, if there is any money left, it will be split...
...financial situation was getting desperate. He had written a brilliant, bitter, difficult book, The Sound and the Fury, which Publisher Harrison Smith assured him would not sell. He had married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote, using an upturned wheelbarrow for a desk...
...establish a fund in aid of the Harvard Law School," and this fund is to be known as the "Emory Washburn Memorial Fund, endowed by a member of the Class of 1872." Only the income may be used, but there are no other restrictions as to use of the money by the Law School. Although it is not known how the bequest will be invested, it would seem to be a safe prediction that the income will amount to at least $20,000 a year and probably more...