Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been split between the majority supporters of President Vargas and the minority party of ambitious swashbuckling Governor Francisco Flores da Cunha, ominous telegrams began flying up to Rio de Janeiro. Majority leaders accused Governor Flores da Cunha of mobilizing his crack State army of 30,000 men to gain control of the Legislature. He was, moreover, "liberating criminals who are infesting the capital and the interior," planning to seize the State's telegraph and telephone system...
...will be cut form 300 students to 150. This alone will strike a serious blow at the study of music here and will necessitate especial care in the selection of applicants so as to insure the admission of enough Freshmen for whom this course is fundamental. Inability to gain admission to Music 1 in Freshman year may well result in turning away many potential music concentrators. In like manner, Music A, basic course in the theory of music, is being pared to one half its size...
...Internal Revenue figures last week showed that March production of cigarets was the highest for any month in U. S history (12,791.724.170). Gain over the same month last year...
...Roosevelt as Governor had discredited his case. Mr. McKee, an independent Democrat, made up a strong personal ticket and clinched second place, while LaGuardia won the berth in City Hall by a small plurality, but not by a majority decision. It seems perfectly plain, then, that, despite his gain in popularity during his term, for the Republicans to throw their hundred thousand odd votes to another candidate might spell the Mayor's defeat...
Newspaper operating profits are figured before interest, taxes and various other charges. Last year after all charges Hearst Publications as a whole earned only $2,372,000, a slight gain over the year before but under the figure for 1934. Not the least startling item in Hearst Publications, Inc.'s accounting is the principal tangible asset-$37,000,000 due from its parent company, Hearst Consolidated Publications. A footnote explains that most of that item once represented money due from another Hearst company. When Hearst Consolidated was formed in 1930, it assumed the debt in part payment for stock...