Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointed Council would undoubtedly do better (and be more "significant") than an elected one, but there are a great many weaknesses to the appointive system. Probably the loss would be more than the gain...
...figure that the average barrel costs a little over $12, it's easy to calculate the profit on a keg. If the elbow bender is to gain on a nickel beer, it has to hold at least five ounces. At that price, it's impossible for any bartender to clear operating costs, much less make an additional profit...
...question is what are the real differences between the two records. The leading considerations are speed of revolution and playing time. Both records use speeds slower than ordinary. Victor uses the gain in time to reduce the size of the record; Columbia puts more music on the standard size record. Victor's claim that its speed of 45 revolutions per minute is better than Columbia's 33 1/3 is true only in an historical sense. The Victor speed presents a much easier engineering problem than the Columbia speed. Victor records, therefore, have a uniform quality while Columbia's quality varies...
...defensive standout last fall, was a pain in the Red backfield all afternoon. He stopped Red ball carriers short of the line of scrimmage seven times, for a grand total of 51 yards. He was thus personally responsible for as much lost yardage as the whole Red team could gain in 60 minutes of football...
...make up for the news they skipped. The Trib's Managing Editor J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney thought it was not all loss. Said he: "We have told the background of the news better under strike conditions than [before]." And Daily News Managing Editor Everett Norlander detected another gain: "We've learned how to keep our copy short." Stories had to be chopped well down, because larger VariType faces take more space than linotype...