Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to bargaining craft by craft, could see little gain from overall policy discussions. The C.I.O., which stood to gain most, was boxed in. The solution, and the public, would have to wait...
...Moscow's New Times read the U.S. a history lesson implying that any attempt on its part to gain world domination via the atom would fail. ¶ At Sacramento, Calif., the aviators who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki were asked if they wanted it placed under international control. Shouted the fivers: "Hell...
...small war" was a Clausewitzian extension of the political talks begun in August by Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Generalissimo Chiang's negotiators, and recessed last month. The suspended but by no means abandoned negotiations and the military maneuverings were inextricably intermixed. The more either side could gain in the field, the less would be left to negotiation. The more they finally settled by negotiation, the less they would have to fight about...
...needed Labor councils to carry out Labor policy. Then, in the words of its slogan, it could go "full steam ahead." When the votes had been counted in the 182 biggest metropolitan and provincial boroughs, Labor had brushed aside most of its opposition to win 2,977 seats (a gain of 1,245). Conservative strength slid from 1,595 seats to 835, Liberals from 245 to 111. Communists upped their standing from...
...Gain. For the first time in four years, buyers of human hair for the Venida Hair Nets are en route to China. They will buy hair for 65 million hairnets, subcontract the net-making to 300,000 Chinese women...