Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois 2% occupation tax. Twenty power companies headed by Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke, and Central Illinois Public Service contended that current was an intangible, hence nontaxable. The State contended that current was a tangible and taxable commodity. The companies stood to lose in taxes, the State to gain in revenue, some $5,000,000 annually...
...Biggest Roosevelt gain: 14.39% in California. Chief areas of Roosevelt gains: 1) the Pacific Coast, 2) New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
...roughly into two groups: First, those who seek special political privilege and, second, those who seek special financial privilege. . . . The toes of some people are being stepped on and are going to be stepped on. But these toes belong to the comparative few who seek to retain or to gain positions or riches or both by some short cut which is harmful to the greater good...
...grace of God is an artist, has always been considered as the pillar of fire in the synagog. He has the ability with the rays of his voice to create light and joy when Israel is left in darkness. . . . When the whole world was engaged in speculation to gain more wealth, the cantor was content with the necessaries of life. When the whole country made a concerted drive to organize labor and make possible a living wage, the cantor still was reluctant to move. The results are despair, despondency and destruction...
...above the same week of the year before but loadings of less than carload lots, almost wholly consumer merchandise, dropped 20,000 cars from the week before. Ore & coke for the steel industry, madly piling up inventories in anticipation of strikes, accounted for no small part of the carloading gain...