Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Westminster Hall-this place of sacred traditions running back through the centuries and the precious heritage of all English speaking peoples-there crowd in upon us today memories of the historic events which have occurred in this great chamber, signalizing as they do the efforts of men to gain and preserve freedom. We recall the panoply of events during which the individual, by dint of hard and persistent struggles to obtain his cherished rights, gradually secured them from the forces of power and privilege...
...like more of a boss than ever because he had just beaten federal charges that he had tried to plant an agent on the Senate's McClellan committee investigating labor racketeering (TIME, July 29). As Reformer Hoffa, he took the rostrum to propose: 1) an organizing drive to gain 600,000 Teamster members, 2) transfer of some Beck-abused powers from the president to the union's executive board, 3) a demand that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. revoke its policy of censuring union officers who plead the Fifth Amendment (which Dave Beck pleaded ad infinitum). In the event...
...term problems (the economy is stagnant, and overcommitted-by as much as 37% of its foreign trade-to the Soviet bloc). Addressing his new one-party Parliament early in the week, Nasser seemed almost too subdued to be true. He summarized his regime's homefront achievements ("Our greatest gain is hope"), and bore down on the need to "build, build, build, to make up for the past, to face the future." Said Nasser: "We must always remember that our people are increasing by more than 300,000 new citizens every year...
...alltime high in June (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Yet the economy seemed well able to absorb the high prices-at least for the moment. In 1957's second quarter, the gross national product climbed to an annual rate of $433.5 billion, some 5% more than last year; half the gain was due to inflated prices, but the rest was a result of new production. Predicted Weeks; 1957 "will be the best year in the history of the economy...
Until recently, the airlines have defeated the cost-price squeeze by flying more efficient planes with more passengers each year. Now their rate of growth is leveling off. While passenger volume climbed 18% in 1955, it increased only 13% in 1956, will probably gain only 10% this year. Moreover, the airlines have reached the economic limit of efficiency with their present fleets. For the first time in commercial air operations, the most modern piston-engine plane, Douglas Aircraft's DC-7, cannot haul enough passengers far enough and fast enough to compensate for its higher initial cost and increased...