Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, in stressing long-term projects such as dams ("Nuri's Pyramids," they were called) and a few such eventual luxuries as a million-dollar opera house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and letting favored sheiks gain most of the quick benefits of prosperity, the old regime neglected the immediate needs of the fellahin. "If everyone could fall asleep for ten years," Nuri is reported to have said once, "we would all wake up to something beautiful." But the fellahin in their mud slums, working for rapacious landlords, did not want to wait...
...factories have been set up by Argus Chemical in Brussels, Consolidated Electrodynamics in Frankfurt, International Harvester in Heidelberg. Coty International, with branches in three European countries, in February formed an 80%-owned subsidiary in West Germany. Says Coty President Philip Cortney: "As manufacturers, we have everything to gain and nothing to lose by the common market...
...firms will be able to gain equal access to all common market countries by establishing themselves in any one. While wages and other production costs now vary among common market countries, European economists expect them eventually to level out-as they have already started to in the European coal and steel nations. In view of this, smart companies are already picking plant sites on the basis of the best, not the cheapest, labor. Chicago's Outboard Marine, for example, decided to establish a plant in Bruges, Belgium, where wages are now relatively high, because it found that Belgians work...
...trade area, consisting of the United Kingdom and five other countries outside the common market, to form a community of more than 240 million potential customers. Many U.S. firms are holding back to see if this will happen; they would prefer to get into England under lower tariffs, thus gain access to the Commonwealth trading area as well as the common market. But foreign traders contend that now is the best time for U.S. firms to enter the market area. Says Lawyer Ball: "There are dangers in waiting. Once producers in other countries are established, it may be extremely difficult...
...launching vehicle was the old reliable Jupiter-C-a Redstone rocket as the first stage, topped with assemblies of small solid-propellant rockets. The propellant in the third and fourth stages had more punch, permitting the weight of the final satellite to be raised to 38.43 lbs., a gain...