Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunes exchanged hands. One James Carew, shipping clerk of Liverpool, won the Calcutta Sweepstake,** amounting to $365,000. As he had sold two quarter shares in his ticket for about $25,000, his net gain was only about $207,000, but enough to provide James Carew with a thrill...
...history of the corporation is an embodiment of the highest qualities of British commerce. Lloyd's policy has never been the one-sided pursuit of gain, but a combination of keenness and efficiency in business with a real and deep public spirit...
...well known, Air. Loree covets lor his "fifth system." As yet, however, this proposal for another Eastern railway merger is not taken seriously, except as an obstructing move to the recognized "Big Four." For Loree's "fifth system" must apparently include the Lehigh or Lackawanna to gain its indispensable entry into New York. In both of these roads, Mr. George F. Baker and allied interests are deeply interested; and Mr. Baker's obvious interest in disposing of either of them would seem to consist in turning them over to the N. Y. Central. While the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...fourth time this year a Freshman team bowed to Yale by narrowest of heart-breaking margins, when the Eli first year men rallied in the ninth inning Saturday to gain a 2 to 1 victory in the best-played game of baseball at Soldiers Field this season. The game was errorless, and was featured by brilliant pitching on the part of both Barbee of the Freshmen and Shoop of Yale...
Yale came back in the ninth, however, to gain the verdict. Hammersley beat out a slow roller to Pollard, a lucky break for the Blue which put Barbee in a hole. Vaughan followed with a three base drive to right center, Hammersley scoring, and Caldwell immediately sent Vaughan home with a single over the closed-in infield. Barbee retired the next three men with little trouble, but Harvard went out in one-two-three order in the last half of the inning...