Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabinet, with only watchdog legislative committees in session, there is a chance that de Gaulle may be able to make these vital changes. President Coty and the French Assembly have taken a calculated risk that de Gaulle will be a deliverer rather than a dictator. They have much to gain and, in the present critical condition of France, little to lose...
Special Techniques. The matador hovered near death, then began to gain strength slowly. This week Bienvenida was recovering. Like many of the 2,500 bullfighters, from the lowliest peones to the top matadors, whom Don Luis has treated, Bienvenida felt that no other surgeon could have saved his life...
Thank heavens we have dedicated men like Harry S. Truman who will lead us into a depression and worldwide ruin for their own political gain...
...will nominate for Premier. Adone Zoli, the present caretaker Premier, has indicated that he will not take the job again. Fanfani would not want it if he had to form a coalition with more than one other center party: some more moderate Christian Democrat would probably become Premier. To gain his own big ambition, Fanfani has to count...
...Part of the drop was due to a seasonal pickup in outdoor workers, yet initial jobless claims for the week also turned down by 19,800. ¶Retail sales rose in April to $16.1 billion, 2% better than March. Most important, durable goods registered a gain for the first time this year, while housing, slowed by a cold winter and a wet spring, was picking up speed rapidly. April housing jumped to an annual rate of 950,000, v. a level of 880,000 in March, and is expected to do even better in May. ¶ Inventories declined still another...