Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mildness was only apparent. Soon he was referring to Little Steel's gain under the formula tailored for it as "a lousy nickel" an hour. Under the same percentage formula, building tradesmen got a 22½?-an-hour increase, he said. What was fair about that? Soon, well warmed up, Murray was speaking of Miami-and-Mex-ico-tanned executives daring to suggest that steelworkers are "getting too much money." He talked of the "wise men, fat men, men who are enjoying...
...rationing and heedlessness of high prices have cut down the sales by chains and supermarkets, and have boosted the neighborhood grocer's business. Dollar sales of grocery chains declined 16% during 1943 ; independents showed a 20% gain...
...failure of the Quaker debaters to gain the decision was due largely to their failure to indicate consciousness of the inadequacy of existing facilities...
Dana Andrews and Richard Conte play the parts of American aviators forced down over Chinese territory after the new-famous Doolittle raid on Tokyo. The plot from there is simple. Falling into the hands of the Japs, they are subjected to torture in an attempt to gain information about their base. Mediocre to the end, they refuse to divulge the required facts and march to their deaths to the strains of the Army Air Corps Song...
...suffering untold agony, is now asked to surrender far more to Russia than what she refused to give Hitler. For the Curzon line frontier demanded by Russia is close to the Hitler-Stalin line of 1939. It means a loss of 47% of prewar Poland, while it represents a gain of less than 1% for the Soviet Union. The Polish Government has declared its readiness to discuss concessions, but no government, least of all a government in exile, could make such concessions as this without the express consent of the Polish people...