Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tune. From Finland, Russia is to get the warm water port of Petsamo and a lease on the Baltic naval base at Porkala; from Rumania, 79,300 square miles of Bessarabia. Other shifts in the Balkans give Transylvania back to Rumania, southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The British and French gain at the expense of Italy: the Dodecanese Islands go to British-controlled Greece; the communes of Briga and Tenda and other bits of the Italian Alps go to France. But Italy is allowed to keep the South Tyrol over Austrian protest. Trieste, instead of going to either Yugoslavia or Italy...
...that the prisoners had almost certainly been railroaded to jail for political purposes, and that the Governor himself was not trying to overthrow civilization. He was a self-made Gilded Age millionaire lawyer of German peasant stock who happened to develop a social conscience. Personally he had little to gain by the pardon and much to lose; in fact, he lost the governorship at the next election, and later could not even get elected Mayor of Chicago. He died a relatively poor man at a relatively early age (55) in 1902, of locomotor ataxia. He was mourned by thousands, among...
...tape that keeps patients out of hospitals permits Lisbon's director of public health to gain credit with budget-minded Salazar by returning part of his appropriation to the national treasury each year...
...real margin, after taxation, that counts. ... It will only lead to disaster to pretend that ordinary human beings are angels or philosophers (of either the Marxist or the Spencerian professions). . . . Even in the 20th Century, most of them are more like donkeys driven by desire for gain or fear of hunger...
Peru ran off congressional by-elections. The dominant Apra party picked up a few seats in the House, but failed to gain a majority in the Senate. The chief congressional issue: re-servicing of bond issues floated in the U.S. in 1927-28. Apra wants to pay up, then get more U.S. credits. Apra's cotton and sugar baron opponents fight any scheme that would give Apra funds for its industrializing and irrigation plans...