Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Employment still lags far behind production, latest Reserve Board index figure being about 85 compared to 100 on industrial output. Payrolls are even farther behind, at about 80. Contra-seasonal gains in factory employment and payrolls were reported last week, much to the "surprise" of Secretary of Labor Perkins, who said the increase was a "symbol of underlying confidence." Notable was the fact that payrolls' in heavy industry showed a 26% gain over May 1935. According to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the number of hired hands per 100 U. S. farms increased from 73 in the spring...
...party, the political priest explained that canon law forbade his actually starting one. But he readily admitted that a candidate was in view, that a platform had been submitted to him "through a third person," that the candidate had only to accept the platform and announce his candidacy to gain the Coughlin endorsement. The announcement, said he, might come any day from New York, Boston or Washington...
...doubtless aware last week that in the July Christian Herald would appear the annual church statistics prepared by Dr. George Linn Kieffer; that these show an increase for all U. S. religious bodies of 670,801 members in 1935, or 1.08% as compared with the total U. S. population gain of .71%; that according to Dr. Kieffer "this refutes the statement often made that the Church is declining." Nonetheless Statistician Babson believes that people in general and Congregational-Christians in particular stay away from church, and last week during the South Hadley de liberations, which were broadly planned to focus...
Signing of the measure last week passed unnoticed by the commodity markets affected. Indeed, cotton went above 12? per Ib. for the first time since last January; wheat closed the week with a 6? gain at 94? per bu. President Robert P. Boylan of the Chicago Board of Trade diplomatically announced: "Directors of the Board of Trade have no reason to anticipate other than a fair and reasonable administration...
...clearly still the fastest-moving item on the publishing church's list of 246 books. Its latest forms are a $2 Sunday School Edition for young people, a Cleartype edition "as a contribution to the comfort of many." Also new on the list, which showed a 30% sales gain last year and was last week reported holding steady, are Christian Healing in Moon type, the Church Manual in Braille, eight new solo settings of Mrs. Eddy's hymns...