Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time thus gained veterans were to put pressure on the President to sign the bill, on Senators to gain the necessary votes to override a veto. Commander Van Zandt asked "a million Americans''* to demand the Patman Bill's final enactment. Commander Belgrano, beaten but wishing to retire from the field with the honors of war, called on Legionaries for similar demonstrations. Telegrams at the rate of 250 an hour flooded Washington, 15,000 were delivered at the White House one day. And Father Coughlin who takes credit for having defeated the World Court, tried his influence...
...further fact that the work of the Bureau enables some of the Law School students to gain at first hand a glimpse of the stuff of which the thousands of cases read each year are made may also relieve the School of some of its notoriously deadening monotony...
Radcliffe has adopted the idea and will use the same form to gain signatures form that portion of the University's patronage...
...Trust," the chain letter contains six names. A recipient is supposed to mail a dime to the first name on the list, and that name is then scratched off. At the bottom of the list is added the name of the recipient, who then mails out five copies to gain new "Prosperity Club" members. He does not receive any dimes until after his letters have multiplied six times and his name has moved to the top of the list. Then if the chain is unbroken, he will receive no less than 15,625 dimes ($1,562.50). Chain letters fall afoul...
...Cost of labor and materials tended to jump faster than the price of finished products. But Chrysler in the March quarter boosted its sales 57%, its profits 177%. How Mr. Chrysler made so much money in three short months puzzled Wall Street, for no bookkeeping tricks accounted for the gain. Most credible explanation...