Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passer-by could stop and hear an old-fashioned soapbox speech on politics. It was a new fashion of the Conservatives, who suddenly seemed to be under the influence of a big dose of triple-strength Benzedrine. They got a lift from a Gallup poll. It showed a Tory gain and a Labor loss in public popularity in the last year; they were now neck & neck, and if an election were held this week it might be either's neck. Moreover, the street meetings semed to be going well. Tories ran into good-natured heckling, but the bitterness many...
...back if they do not like it under Tito. But these passports worry Canadians, for some might be used for re-entry by the rightful holders, after being indoctrinated in Yugoslavia in Communist spy techniques. Others might be picked up by Tito's OZNA and used to gain illegal entry into Canada for other agents of the Kremlin. Canada will have to be on the alert for years to come...
This year's performance is unusually well-leavened with foreign stars, for now with the war over they have a chance to leave the confusion of Europe and gain the quiet security of the high wire and trapeze. Another influence of the modern scene is a display involving a Junior Jeep, not to mention the tragicomic clown skit with a bright black Atom Smasher. One clown climbs in the machine and...the rest can be imagined...
...quickly and how much can he gain on Hollywood? In Britain, if his production reaches 100 pictures a year -the maximum with present studios-he may cut Hollywood to 70% of the total box-office take in the United Kingdom, thus cut the dollar drain on Britain by about $20,000,000. On the same production basis, he might send enough top pictures to the U.S. to step his profits up to $18,000,000. This would be a blow to Hollywood. But Rankmen bumptiously predict that within five years they will be digging up $50,000,000 in Hollywood...
...declared that "neither party would gain" politically by a vote and expressed hope that nobody is "trying to put the President of the United States on the spot...