Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers organized a "stay-in." They did their work by day, slept in the plant by night. The management of the plant did nothing, for the stay-inners were trying to prevent sit-downers from seizing the plant. Said the leader of the stay-inners: "We have nothing to gain from C. I. O. organization here and we have taken steps to make certain that our jobs will not be jeopardized...
...with ceiling zero in the late 19205. Not only did they mount the witness stand in Washington with penitence and goodwill, but also wrote a good record in their annual reports. In a study of 47 general management trusts, Tri-Continental Corp. last week announced that the average gain for the year had been...
Trusts have hitherto objected strenuously to comparisons with stockmarket averages. This year Tri-Continental was only too glad to point out that in comparison with an average gain of 32% for general management trusts, Standard Statistics' 90-stock average rose only 27.9% the New York Times' 50-stock average only 21.1%, the 782 common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange about 25%. The Dow-Jones averages showed a 24.5% rise in industrials, 32.5% in rails, 17.9% in utilities. Actually the comparison was even more favorable to the trusts because part of their assets were in cash...
Mutual type trusts did a little less well than general investment companies, Tri-Continental's average for 22 mutuals being 30.9%. A list of 15 specialized trusts with portfolios concentrated in one industry varied widely in performance, showed a gain on the average of only...
Although the needy clients of the Bureau have in the past found its services invaluable, even greater advantages are gained by the law students for whom it forms an ideal clinical outlet. As other professional schools, such as those of medicine and dentistry, have found charity work of this kind a happy supplement to the more theoretical studies of the classroom, so the untried legal minds of Harvard should gain valuable experience from these practical contacts with...