Word: gain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle West, 83% on the Pacific Coast; 2) wages were standing still; 3) business generally was down 30% from August 1937 but up 10% to 25% since June 1938; 4) employment increased from June to August in about twice as many places as it decreased; 5) 94% expected a gain in business activity, but there was little enthusiasm. Sample industrial comments: Steel: "Quite sure it will pick up soon." Machinery: "Optimistic, but permanency questionable." Zippers: "Expect business to be good for a year or so until the Government has spent all the money...
...motor industry has still a big enough margin of profit to make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...
...Filipinos of today are soft and easygoing. Our tendency toward parasitism is not inclined to sustained strenuous effort. Face-saving is our dominant note in the confused symphony of our existence. Our sense of righteousness often is dulled by a desire for personal gain. We lack the superb courage which impels action because it is right. Our greatest fear is not to do wrong, but to be caught doing wrong. Our conception of virtue is conventional. We take religion lightly and we think lip-service equivalent to a deep, abiding faith. Patriotism among us is only skin deep and incapable...
...spot. Under a six-month experimental license the Commission gave Powel Crosley Jr. the right to raise the broadcasting power of his Cincinnati station (WLW) from the U. S. maximum of 50,000 watts to 500,000 watts. Reason: to find out how much radio service the listener might gain (from the power boost) and lose (through interference with smaller stations). Enterprising Broadcaster Crosley spent $396,287 on his 500-kw. transmitter. When he put it into daily operation in May 1934, WLW was heard satisfactorily over 13 States and part of Canada...
...communities in 24 States and Canada in the 1920s, then floated three stock issues and two bond issues. By 1935, when U. P. & L. debentures sold as low as 20¼? on the dollar, Floyd Odium's big investment trust. Atlas Corp., bought up enough of them to gain control in a complex deal with RFC. which had its hands on Harley Clarke's key holding company (TIME, July 22, 1935). Harley Clarke was soon shoved out of office and in last week's poker game this toppled tycoon sat quietly on whatever cards he may still...