Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of ripping into Harry Truman for I'affaire Vinson, Tom Dewey decided to let the President's action speak for itself. It was good judgment and good politics. He would gain both votes and stature by refusing to follow Truman's lead in playing politics with the nation's foreign policy...
...contingent leaves South Station for West Point at 8 a.m. this morning, and the team will arrive in time for an afternoon workout in Michie Stadium, that awesome plant in which the Cadets have produced 123 football victories since its construction in 1924. The superstitious can gain some solace from the fact that Harvard took one of the eight games Army has dropped in that time. But Army is particularly ferocious in its own lair, and they are not expected to fold tomorrow...
Liberal Arts Gain Place...
...walking out. But in the end he decided that the State's Rights Party was the best thing for him. South Carolina was a hot center of revolt and Thurmond had his eye on the Senate seat of Olin D. Johnston for 1950. He probably had more to gain than to lose by running as the rebels' candidate for President. He was picked because he was the most willing and eager. Fielding Wright, 53-year-old lawyer, who is as smooth and cold as a hardboiled egg -and whose home town of Rolling Fork, Miss., has more Negroes...
After the summer lull, retail sales had picked up sharply and U.S. department store sales last week showed a 16% gain over the same week last year. This was partly due to an extra shopping day this year. But it was also due to the enormous demand kept up by industrial employment, which is still on the rise. It reached a record of 52,801,000 in August, some 350,000 above the previous month. (But total employment fell because of the seasonal midsummer slack on farms.) In the face of all this, it looked as if the U.S. could...