Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incentive than the right to write off most of the cost in five years instead of the usual 20. And though the arms program was responsible for the start of many of the plants, most of them, e.g., the great new steel, aluminum and chemical factories, were a net gain to the economy for civilian production...
Business and labor alike evolved a new philosophy: each could gain a bigger slice of a bigger pie by more intelligent cooperation. Labor, which once fought technological change, came to see that improved machinery raised real wages by raising man-hour output and lowering costs and prices. Industry, which once fought unionization, came to see that unions themselves could help boost productivity, and that good morale among work...
Business and labor alike evolved a new philosophy: each could gain a bigger slice of a bigger pie by more intelligent cooperation. Labor, which once fought technological change, came to see that im proved machinery raised real wages by raising man-hour output and lowering costs and prices. Industry, which once fought unionization, came to see that un ions themselves could help boost productivity, and that good morale among work ers could release great untapped energies. This new philosophy reached its most dramatic fruition in a revolutionary contract which General Motors' President Charlie Wilson made with the United Auto...
...give my best towards its ultimate gain! --Olive J. Ranck, Boston
Moreover, there is a contest in progress over who can pay the most blatant homage to the sort of political innocence Communism creates in its victims-designate. On one side there is a multitude of groups newly hatched expressly to gain clemency for a brace of convicted spies. On the other, and at this writing far ahead, are those who are seeking to solve the Far East problem by assigning blame for it. Their technique is to serve up a murky stew of half-truth and hindsight, then immerse a handful of Asia experts in it. Owen Lattimore is already...