Word: self-supporting
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...that the U.S. would "study" the demand on condition: 1) that the Soviets would agree to leave in Germany certain factories originally slated to be removed to Russia and take their reparations only from these factories; 2) that current production reparations must not increase occupation costs, or retard German self-support. Under these terms, Russia, which needs its reparations now, might not begin to receive payments for five years...
...rolls of the first drafts (21 to 35), selective-service boards went back through the record of deferments. Men with new wives, or with wives capable of self-support, were going to be reclassified and drafted...
...York City boards. In Cleveland, Ohio, the Cuyahoga County Board of Appeals heard the stories of 14 married men, ruled that thirteen of them must serve because their wives were selfsupporting. In Evansville, Ind. draft boards followed a similar plan, but differed among themselves on what self-support is. Some held that $600 a year was enough to make a wife selfsupporting, a few put the figure as high...
...look upon a hundred dollars a year as a substantial raise." Basis of reform is the Indian Reorganization Act, six years old. With its protection former hunting and war tribes are working out a supportable existence in cattle ranching; the Blackfeet are at-but not over-the threshold of self-support ; the Flatheads have defended and developed a power site of which they were to be robbed. Ninety-eight tribes and bands have organized local governments; 67 have incorporated for business purposes. But the Act and its administrators are under constant and increasing attack, may be destroyed...
...Biggest single group (one-third) got their first jobs by going out and hunting for them. One-fourth got jobs through experience gained in self-support during college, about one-fifth through college placement bureaus, one-tenth through family influence, 2% through fraternity contacts...