Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gain. In Effmgham, Ill., Mayor Paul Taylor (salary: $800 a year) advised future office seekers to "start at the top and run for dog catcher" (1958 earnings...
Ironically, Nyasaland, poorest of the federation's three territories, has the most to gain from the union. It has the smallest (8,000) white minority, all but lost among 2,700,000 blacks. Last July the demagogic Dr. Hastings Banda returned from self-imposed, 40-year exile to cry "To hell with federation" and proclaim himself "extremist of the extremists." Before his oratory, moderate African leaders fell back...
...years, the Seattle Times' s Prize Cross word contest has pulled 19,845,000 entries, has paid off fewer than 200 winners. Circulation gain, not necessarily attributable to the contest: 10,000. *Another kind of fix has plagued the Pionc.fr Press. A few years ago some winning contest entries came from two postal clerks who. working independently of each other, waited until solutions were printed, then submitted entries with phony, before-the-deadline postmarks...
...Democrat has been wavering along between the red and the black ever since Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse added it to his chain in 1955 for $6,250,000. Up against the city's other -and dominant-newspaper, the profitable, Democratic evening Post-Dispatch, the Republican Globe managed to gain some ground (the Globe's circulation of 332,823 is up 40,000 from 1955; the Post's 380,495 is down 7,000), but it never could spin into the solid black. Last week, while his paper was shut down by an American Newspaper Guild strike...
...high and 60 ft. long, to prepare food for the 10,000 cattle he fattens on his feed lots near Greeley, Colo. Truckloads of corn, barley, dry beet pulp, dehydrated alfalfa, protein mix, etc. are ground and mixed into eight different types of feed to give the maximum weight gain to cattle at different age levels. In addition to antibiotics and minerals, Farr also adds tranquilizers to make the animals eat more, avoid threshing around and bruising their flesh en route to the slaughterhouse...