Word: earning
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Great Seal. At age twelve, Dean drafted a clairvoyant document entitled "What I Plan to Do with the Next Twelve Years of My Life." The schedule called for finishing high school, then working for two years to earn money to go to college, then attending North Carolina's Davidson College (where his father had studied), then winning a Rhodes scholarship and studying at Oxford. True to his plan, he worked as a general helper in a small law office for two years after high school, then used his savings to get started at Davidson College (which he calls...
...pays his help well; a few Neiman clerks, working on commission as well as salary, can earn up to $25,000 a year. In return Marcus demands that they be unfailingly polite no matter how uncouth the customer may seem. He likes to remind them of the cotton-smocked girl who once came in straight off her father's farm. Papa had just struck oil, and Daughter spent $10,000 to outfit herself in style, including shoes for her bare feet...
Harvard's famed facultymen make as much as $1,000 a lecture, and some chemistry professors earn the same fee per day advising drug companies. At the Harvard Business School, two-thirds of the 108-man faculty do sideline consulting, and 28 are officers and directors of corporations. Professor Paul W. Cherington is chairman of his own science-management firm, United Research Inc. Professor Malcolm McNair reportedly earns more than $40,000 a year advising retailers. Just for advising Incorporated Investors Inc. one day a week, the late economist Sumner H. Slichter used to get $10,000 a year...
...FARE INCREASES will get a friendly reception from the Civil Aeronautics Board. In making permanent three temporary increases, CAB said airllnes should ask for higher fares if they do not earn 10.5% on their investments. Average return...
...resemble a fancy turn-of-the-century saloon in red velvet, covered the walls with paintings of nudes, supplied a ragtime piano player and free platters of cold cuts. The biggest attractions were beautiful waitresses in abbreviated versions of 1905 ball gowns. Mostly aspiring models and actresses, they earn up to $15,000 a year, are strictly supervised by Browne's pretty wife, Jean...