Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the first of 57 new streamlined electric locomotives which cost $250,000 each, can haul a heavy Pullman train 90 m.p.h. Pennsylvania hopes to save $7,250,000 a year in operating expenses through electrification, points with pride to its passenger traffic which last year showed a gain for the first time in a decade. To increase it still further,. Pennsylvania last week cut Broadway Limited's New York-Chicago time to 17 hr. (a reduction of 45 min.), lowered the extra fare from $10 to $7.50. Simultaneously New York Central did the same with its crack...
...case of any reduction of personnel. Small complaint have Government jobholders against their boss, for most of them drew pre-Depression pay till April 1933, then took a 15% cut for a few months, now have won back all their original wages. Last week they set out to gain redress from the risk of marriage on the payroll...
...corporations reporting March-quarter earnings at the best figure in five years, the Wall Street Journal discovered, no less than 17 were either motormakers or companies dependent in large measure on the motor industry. In the first four months automobile production was about 1,570,000 units, a 37% gain over the same period of last year. Sales to consumers, however, were only about a million, leaving more than 500,000 cars piled up in the hands of dealers and manufacturers. With the best selling season still ahead, that inventory is nothing alarming but it most certainly means that factory...
...tradition, many an alumnus becomes so blindly loyal to his college that he desires to see it prosper at the expense of its intellectual growth or its contribution to society. It is this tendency to make college the end, rather than to twined his horizons so that he may gain an understanding of the relationship which his college should have to his social life, that contributes to the present inadequacy of the liberal arts college...
...nervously debates the possibility of a dividend cut. But with $250,000,000 in cash & Government bonds and surplus still above $400,000,000, A. T. & T. manages to stand the strain. Last week President Gifford was almost sanguine on the business outlook. Telephones in use registered a net gain of 112,000 in the three-month period, jumped another 22,500 in the first two weeks of April...