Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says No? In two other Russian fights during UNO's last wearing week, Vishinsky traded tactical loss for strategic gain. The Security Council voted down his demand for an Indonesian investigation, which gave Russia her chance to pose before the world's dependent peoples as their UNO paladin...
Ever since the wartime pinch, when Communist Earl Browder first put forth the heresy that capitalism and social gain might be compatible, his U.S. comrades have been sniping at him. In July 1945, on orders from abroad, they demoted him from boss. Last week, pondering his recent conversion into a little businessman (TIME, Jan. 28), they recommended his expulsion from the party. The charges: "[Browder] is an active opponent of the party representing an enemy-class ideology. . . . [He] supports the entire policy of the Truman Administration, including its imperialist course in foreign affairs...
...Stahlmen Gain Early Lead...
Robin F. Worthington '47 and W. Brewster Kopp '47 successfully argued against the proposition of tying wages to profits Friday evening to gain a victory over Columbia for the Harvard Debate Council...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who has seldom shunned the spectacular, made an ear-jarring proposal last week. He suggested dropping an atomic bomb to crack the more than 1,800-ft.-thick Antarctic polar icecap. Thus, the U.S. might gain access to the copper, iron, gold, coal and other minerals reported hidden below...