Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Postulating a grey-as-ashes England where upper-class loss has not meant lower-class gain, Playwright Osborne writes of a young intellectual who looks back because he has no incentive to look ahead, and looks back in anger because he has no brighter past than future. Exulting in his wrongs rather than crusading for his rights, living in "the American age" but without sharing its rewards, Jimmy-at least on the surface-is resolutely a full-fledged Disorganization Man. But gnawing at him worse than have-not economics is the endemic English intestinal bug of class resentment. Happily, none...
...million. In the key New York area, loans last week also bucked the usual seasonal uptrend, declining by $15 million; in the same week last year, they rose by $89 million. For the entire third quarter, commercial and industrial loans decreased by $37 million v. an $857 million gain during the same period...
...Fortnightly will appear again about next Thursday, Winter said. The organization hopes to change its name to the Harvard Fortnightly, if the Student Council and the Dean's Office approve its constitution. The magazine's directors are now in conference with Dean Watson, hoping to gain this approval, and "we want it made very clear that we're not controlled by an outside source," Winter said...
...business board gives prospective full-fledged members of society an opportunity to gain business experience before entering the coldness of the outside world...
...halting Hoffa's steamroller. What they must do then is to convince the rank and file teamster that Hoffa is bad for him and for organized labor. This will not be easy, for many teamsters believe that while Hoffa may be corrupt, he has had to be to gain labor benefits for them. The question will then be whether the anti-Hoffa forces can convince this group that Hoffa is not out for the good of the Teamsters, but for the good of James R. Hoffa...