Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calculations. Before the war it was discovered that slow-moving neutrons could split the atoms of the uranium isotope, U-235, giving a mighty gush of energy. Besides energy, their "fission" produced more flying neutrons. If enough of these in turn split uranium atoms, the reaction would maintain itself, gain momentum. It would flash through all the uranium, like the flame of a match through excelsior...
Among the political small fry, the Communist Party could claim a 100% parliamentary gain. For its traditional lone M.P. William Gallacher, it had managed to elect a comrade, Philip Piratin...
...companies, after months of public worry about their dreary prospects, did remarkably well. Bethlehem Steel Corp. sales were down to $399 million v. $471 a year ago. But taxes were down $4 million; $3 million less was charged to depreciation and depletion. Thus net profit was $8 million, a gain of $1.3 million over 1944's second quarter...
Said New Mexico's Senator Carl Hatch, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee : "I think the President was speaking of not retaining territory for selfish gain. Any Pacific area we keep will be for defense purposes only and is likely to be almost entirely worthless for any other purpose...
Sixty would be Yardlings turned up at New Lecture Hall at the appointed hour, 8 'o clock in the evening. When nothing came off, 25 of the disappointed lads decided to gain revenge on Harvey Lyon '49, listed on the poster as "student assistant" to "Dean Kronum," fictitious signee to the poster; but Lyon, too, it appears, was a victim of the successful gagster...