Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Essentially, this plan would assure increasing British domination in the Holy Land and little more. The Arabs, accustomed to shifting their nomadic populations with little regard to border lines, could easily gain majority control of most of the country's area. This would, in effect, mean British control. Certainly the permitted entry of 100,000 Jews every two years would hardly meet Jewish DP needs in Europe. (Last week, General McNarney stated that "without question, 95 percent of Jewish DPs in Europe want to go only to Palestine...
...charter and the terms of the treaties with the beaten nations were the rules in the contest between Russia and the West, not the contest itself. That would be fought far from U.N.'s sober committee rooms. If anti-Communist Moslems and Hindus could not agree, Communism would gain in India (see FOREIGN NEWS). If the anti-Communist Chinese Government could get transportation going, Communism would be set back. If Communist parties and other projections of Moscow's will were able to hamstring non-Communist governments or to divide peoples, that would represent Russian gains just as surely...
...dead for the many students who wasted their effort to gain admission through the notion that education means acquiring skill in the use of a limited body of facts, or worse still, that an A.B. from Harvard is an end in itself...
...control the Central. (Until he does, the ICC has ruled that the Chase Bank will vote his Central stock.) When and if he does get control, he plans to mesh the Central into his other railroads. Next step in Young's master plan is to gain control of the bankrupt Missouri Pacific railroad, now fat with war profits. By virtue of the stock he held in it before it went broke, Bob Young hopes to have control, when it is reorganized...
Would it actually be possible for the U.S., as many Americans believe, to gain Russia's trust by conciliatory moves? Recently, as this contention became more and more publicized, it was examined by an American who has concerned himself long and closely with the U.S.S.R. TIME herewith presents his prognosis and prescription...