Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock, the son of a superintendent of schools, he was a radio tinkerer in high school, worked his way through local Midwestern colleges. His interest in radio led him to a Ph.D. in physics at Yale (1925), and he began studying ionization, the electrification of atoms by loss or gain of electrons. At 27 he was made an associate professor at the University of California, in 1930 conceived the idea of the cyclotron, which has been called "as useful in research as the microscope...
SOVIET STEEL PRODUCTION spurted 8% to 30 million tons in first half of 1957, world's biggest gain by far, says U.S. Commerce Department. Meantime, other nations held fairly steady, except U.S., which plunged 37% to 38 million...
Your Aug. 11 article concerning the Jehovah's Witnesses' convention was extremely interesting. It seems that the more fantastic the dogmas a particular sect or religion has, the easier it is for them to gain converts...
...U.S.S.R. in military technology. Since last Oct. 4, when Russia's Sputnik I spun into the sky, the syndrome has afflicted many who should know better. Proclaimed Columnist Joseph Alsop three weeks ago: "It is now the Eisenhower Administration's policy to permit the Kremlin to gain an overwhelming superiority of nuclear striking power in the next five years." Wrote retired Army Lieut. General James M. Gavin in his book War and Peace in the Space Age (TIME, Aug. 11): "We are in second place militarily and in second place in the exploration of space." The syndrome...
Housing starts increased in June for the fourth consecutive month, steel production has declined only seasonally (while new orders held up), petroleum output increased and is scheduled to gain further in August, and demand for natural and synthetic textiles has firmed. Last week the Federal Reserve Board reported that department store sales for the previous week were running 3% above the 1957 level. Adding to recent gains in manufacturing employment and hours, the Big Three automakers announced plans to recall 182,000 workers to work on the 1959 models. And though the rate of inventory cutback continued in June...