Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just a note of thanks, from several members of [the Cambridge police] department, for the assistance of many unknown and unnamed "Harvard Sons," who unselfishly and without thanks or gain volunteered their help to us and to some of the thousands of motorists and pedestrians caught in the recent blackout...
...loss eliminated Harvard from the Ivy title race. The undefeated Bruins need only to defeat Columbia next Saturday to gain the League championship...
Just when one of the safeties seems to have him down, his short, thick legs pump a little harder and Gatto is loose for another long gain. There are faster backs and stronger ones, but the quick start and fluid change of direction have spelled success for Gatto...
...switchers mostly feel that their work has become a bore, a trap or a disillusionment. A 40-year-old company president wrote Columbia that he felt "wasted in working for material gain only." A department head in a large engineering firm complained that his job entailed "a continuous round of panics with little ultimate purpose or meaning." "My job was a boring, stale thing to me," said Mrs. Carolyn Sadow, one of 14 people who have been through the New Careers program...
Available jobs are also on the rise because U.S. industrial productivity is not growing as fast as it did earlier in the 1960s. Productivity has been rising 3.2% annually for the past several years; the 1965 gain will be just below 3%. Why the slowdown? Increased demand has pushed factories into producing at 89% of their capacity, is forcing them to use older, less efficient machinery and less skilled workers. Shortages of skilled labor are continuing to crop up in many industries...