Word: gainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observation of ten months ago that "these are marks of a police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval of the $65 million loan for building U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters...
...hear naught, to feel naught, is my great gain...
...their fuel bills. But last year the Central threw away its wool hat. It raised $1,242,527, bought two streamlined trains, the Man 0' War and Nancy Hanks II, plugged them with ads and free-excursion trips for children. Last week the Central totted up its gain. In one year, the trains had made $206,829, enough to put the Central on a sturdy track...
Basso, whose spiritual home is Communism, pointed with approval to Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe and said the majority of the Italian Socialist leaders were engaged in "a hybrid, inconsequential, incongruous attempt to preserve or gain personal positions...
...Indonesian archipelago looked to Matty as if it would soon gain its Independence from the Dutch. What the budding republic needed, he decided, was a man like Matty Fox to brace up its economy. The Indonesians, who thought themselves friendless, were enthusiastic...