Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WEST GERMAN BOOM is still on rise, with exports up 28.5% over same period last year. Trade surplus in March alone soared by record $127 million, equal to one-third of entire 1956 gain...
Actually, the Tory gentry with inherited wealth did not gain from Thorneycroft's budget. Its incentives were all directed at the rising middle class, which has contributed so many valuable men to the long lines of emigrants leaving for Australia and Canada. Conservative M.P.s flocked around Thorneycroft afterward with a kind of locker-room enthusiasm unseen in House of Commons lobbies in several years. Said one, noting that Thorneycroft was hanging on to most of his surplus: "If things turn out well, he can give more next year and even more the year after that. Remember, the year after...
...major facts into the first paragraph, then return to each point later for fuller treatment. The result is repetition that taxes both "the paper's newsprint supply [at $135 a ton] and the reader's patience"; it also impairs the readability of many stories that would gain suspense and clarity from a straightforward telling in narrative style. The old-fashioned story structure developed so that the makeup man in a hurry could cut any story from the bottom without destroying its sense. But today, Moriarty wrote, the breadth and quantity of news require the modern technique of planning...
...worker is on the increase because more of them are needed to sell, distribute and service the greater outpouring of goods from the more efficient production lines. If all factory employees were counted in, said BLS, it would be necessary to subtract at least 1% from the manufacturing productivity gains in 1954, 1955 and 1956. This would all but wipe out any gain last year...
...Student Employment Office hopes to gain Massachusetts AFL-CIO support for its large-scale program in student construction work this summer, Director Dustin M. Burke disclosed yesterday...