Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First chain-stores to report November sales showed a 15.1% increase over November 1932-best comparative gain of the year. Reflecting new prosperity in the South and some areas of the Middle West, sales of mail-order stores (which also operate chains) registered the widest advance. Sears, Roebuck reported a 27.2% gain over last year, Montgomery Ward, 25.3%. Poorest performers were the grocery chains...
...November building contracts in states east of the Rockies were 11% above October, 54% above a year ago and at the highest level in two years. PWA awards accounted for the bulk of the gain, but private construction topped November 1932 by 11%.-Dodge Reports...
...good chances of capturing the illusive League title. The Indians have gotten off to a good start in their first two contests of the year. Last Saturday night they opened the season with a 34-30 victory over the Crimson Independents and Wednesday they went to Burlington, Vt., to gain a 33-23 win from the Vermont Catamounts, who had previously defeated McGill...
...appreciable degree in a world of incredible tariff walls, and even though, as Cassandra Keynes has warned, wage-cutting may provoke bitter retaliation by other countries, still Il Duce does not care to risk offending the class which might at some later time furnish Mussolini, 2nd. There is no gain to the all-powerful dictator in making enemies in high places when avoidable...
...real League is of no import, these considerations do not matter. For those who are interested in it the League fulfills the praiseworthy object of being an interest. Through it they escape the reproach of being indifferent, the rigours of participation in a live, unhypothetical movement, and they gain not only honour and glory but a pleasant pastime as well. Parcuis and deans smile benignantly on them, for the occupation is warranted harmless and money refunded if it leads to being arrested while picketing a strike...