Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employers prepared to sit down three times a week under Harvard's gold eagles, Professor Slichter warned them not to expect immediate results from "putting your house in order." Said he: "It takes from two to five years for the employes to gain confidence that conditions have really changed for the better...
Having knocked off more than a year's gain in last fortnight's triple tumble, the stockmarket last week had a rebound. Since business news was neither good nor bad, the advance was ascribed to "technical reasons"-Wall Street's way of saying that everything which goes down must come up. But the market did not go up far, did not stay up long. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after soaring above 2,000,000 shares thrice in a month, fell back into its recent rut. By the peak of the rally, the Dow-Jones...
Present indications are that the total University registration this year, including both the college and the 10 Graduate Schools, will be approximately 8,200, or slightly under last year's enrollment of 8,263. A gain of 75 students is expected in the Graduate School of Business Administration, bringing the fall enrollment to about 950, compared with 874 last year...
...reply to their note demanding fullest apology for the shooting two weeks ago of British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson (TIME, Sept. 6). Reports from London indicated that the reply was not worth waiting for: it contained no formal apology, was patently a Japanese attempt to gain time. The British Cabinet was thought likely to send another ''stiff note...
...that the traffic may not be willing to bear a sizable rate rise. In any case, as a whole the U. S. railroads are desperately in need of more net income, although last year, after deduction of $500,000,000 fixed charges it amounted to $164,0130,000, a gain of 200% over 1935. This was due largely to a 15% rise in freight traffic. Assuming that this rate of increase would continue, the I.C.C. on January i discontinued the emergency freight rates which had produced about $120,000,000 a year revenue. By last week, however, it was readily...