Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he temporarily lost by his bad showing in the Holy Cross meet when he finished last due mainly to a cold encurred during the week. Bill Wright, Charley Worth, Henry Marcy, and Johnny Day, who finished in that order last week, will all be running and attempting to gain higher ranking or show that what they did against the Purple can be expected of them any time...
Recovery has lately carried the magic figure to that level and more. Approaching the seasonal autumn peak, carloadings last week topped 800,000 for the first time in six years. The gain over the corresponding week of 1935 was 28%, but the comparison was distorted somewhat by the coal strike a year ago. So far this year carloadings have averaged 13.3% above the 1935 figure, though weekly gains last summer when general business was unseasonably good ran well above...
...axiom was demonstrated last week with the publication of the latest earnings for the railroads as a whole. Increased traffic boosted the net operating income of the 144 Class I U. S. railroads* from $42,000,000 in August 1935 to $64,000,000 in August 1936, a gain of more than 50%. For the first eight months of this year total operating net income was $364,000,000 as against $263,000,000 in the same period last year. Profits have become a reality for some carriers, are shortly expected by others. Even those in the hands...
...purposes of the 300th Fund are to gain money for the University Professorships and for the National Scholarships originated by President Conant. Thus far a total of $5,514,192.96 has been donated under this Fund but of this $2,000,000 was for the Littauer School of Public Administration. The need for Unrestricted money is felt to be still a pressing one by University Hall, and it is hoped through the continuation of this Fund to keep up the interest of the graduates in progress of National Scholarships and University Professorships...
...vote of the faculty to reinstate these two athletes calls attention to the Big Three eligibility rules, to the fact that by such action Yale in certain cases may gain an advantage over Harvard on the gridiron, and, more specifically, to the fact that if such a rule were in force here in Cambridge, Harvard would probably not have lost here second football captain in two years. Natural result of even a brief survey of these facts is a distinct feeling that either Yale should be made to let her athletes out of the scholastic penalty box at the same...