Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt bull market passed with no such elated demonstration as that which carried the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages to a flat 300 on the last trading day of 1928. Indeed, the peak of the present rise was registered two weeks before when the averages touched 158.7, a clear gain of 64% from the 1935 low of 96.7. The Dow-Jones railroad stock average showed an even more spectacular gain for the year-85%. Largely because they did not reach their Depression lows until after the Public Utility Act was introduced into Congress a little over a year...
...Eagle's death last May to the peak of the autumn upswing, the Annalist index of business activity' rose from 79.3 to 94.8, highest point since the spring of 1930. In the first two months of this year the Annalist index lost about 40% of that 1935 gain, partly because of bad weather, partly because of a sharp drop in automobile production after the year-end. Having passed its winter low, U. S. business was once again on the rise last week, and, though flood conditions will undoubtedly distort the standard business indices for a few weeks, consensus...
Breaking the precedent of former years, when the Ivy Orator was elected by popular vote along with other class officers, the new system will offer a chance for anyone with ability to gain the post...
Desiring to observe the ionosphere both as a function of time and of frequency, the expedition will take two sets of transmitters with which they hope to gain the desired information. Two 500 watt transmitters, designed to work on four specially assigned frequencies, are equipped to photographically record the ionosphere layer as a function of time, while a variable frequency transmitter, which goes from eight to two megacycles, is also equipped to take pictures of the layer but as a function of frequency...
...income tax laws which it is proposed to repeal. Explanation: the corporation would pay a 36.25% tax on its undistributed profits but that would amount to only 14½% on its total profits whereas the average income tax paid under present laws is about 16%. The Treasury's gain would come...