Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow their whistles lest the birds take off, fertilizing the sea. The guanayes have a bad habit of flying low after their takeoff, and their tailfeathers brush guano off the cliffs. Señor Llosa is ringing the steep-sided islands with walls, to force the birds to gain altitude more quickly...
...population has jumped 10,986,725 since 1940, the Census Bureau reported, and now stands at a whopping 142,656,000. California made the biggest gain-2,485,000, as of July 1, 1946-to become the third most populous state. In the 1940 census, it ranked fifth; now only New York and Pennsylvania are ahead of it. Of the ten leading states, only Missouri dropped in population; it lost 8,414 residents...
Renaud Savarit, a Law School student, was the first to gain the comp final by winning the opening heat. Bill Middendorf took the second trial so handily that he bears considerable watching today, and John Murphy was the man who nosed out Robinson in his second attempt...
Whatever happens at Rio, one man stands to gain. He is sharp-eyed Joaquim Rolla, owner of the Quitandinha Hotel. Anxious to stamp a legitimate "Quitandinha" dateline on the deliberations, Rolla got the Brazilian Government to install a postoffice in the building. Recently his pressagent, dining a group of reporters at the lakeside chalet, hopped up and cried, "Wait a minute, gentlemen." The reporters, forks in midair, waited. "Remember," he shouted, "this is to be the Quitandinha Conference...
...more & more people are crowding the Canadian's record. Dr. Korenchevsky, reporting last week on a census of Britain's centenarians (oldest: 112), found that, percentagewise, the number of people over 100 is rising faster than the population. Between 1938 and 1945 Britain had 873 centenarians, a gain of 145 over the preceding eight-year period. Women now outnumber male centenarians five...