Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone, Stalin had to face another full-weight blow from the Nazi war machine. For every trained soldier the Germans had lost in the previous year's battles, he had probably lost as many and more. For every bit of valuable experience which his soldiers and commanders had gained, the Germans had had the opportunity to gain an equal amount...
...gain its clients, Nielsen showed them results obtained during four years from a pilot operation of Audimeters in a selected cross section of 200 radio homes. One Nielsen client was so impressed that he agreed to pay $50,000 for a year's service. Some pilot-survey findings...
...said Adolf Hitler last Oct. 1. By his measure of German gain & loss, the Allies last week still had to inflict a definitive defeat upon the Axis. Rommel was fleeing through Libya and the Allies were at his back in Tunisia, but the Germans were still in North Africa, astride the Mediterranean. The Russians were attacking on ever-widening fronts, but the Germans were still entrenched on those fronts. From Rzhev to Casablanca the Allies had greatly improved their positions, but they still had to translate these positions into victory...
...derring-do flicker, the event was a victory over brass-hat morale builders who had wanted him to be a tidily uniformed entertainer. But to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who, since November 1939, have listened in weekly to an Empire broadcast titled Hi, Gang!, the U.S.A.A.F.'s gain was a loss felt from Iceland to New Guinea. For unnumbered U.S. servicemen have also been eager tuners-in to the show which Ben Lyon, his wife Bebe Daniels, and Vic Oliver have put on the air from London...
...gain in responsibility can be documented whether one turns to the factory floor, to Washington or whether one asks finally what class in America among civilians has in fact given more to and taken least from the war effort. Production-wise 1942 was a year of miracles, not the least of which was the change that came over the economy when the illusory defense era ended. In 1940 and 1941 Government tried to tell business how to run its plants without itself going to war. Japan forced the issue. And when Government itself accepted war and made its acceptance palpable...