Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Different horse trainers have different methods of breaking a colt. A good way, if the animal seems tractable, is to gentle it with words, feed it sugar to gain its confidence, saddle it deftly before it grows excited, then mount and show it who is master. Last week Franklin Roosevelt, who is the U. S.'s most expert political horseman, set out to break a new Congress...
...principal stockholder once turned down an offer of a billion dollars for the company as a going concern. Since it was founded in 1903 with $28,000 of paid-in capital, it has grossed a few hundred millions in excess of $11,000,000,000, retained as net gain nearly $800,000,000. No man in all history has made so much money so quickly or so cleanly as Henry Ford...
...down, agreed would be a better year than last (see p. 59). Behind was a year that had all the fixings of prosperity but little of the turkey. Production of passenger cars and trucks in 1934 was 2,885,000 units, up 45% from 1933 and a clear 100% gain over 1932. Trucks alone accounted for 589,000 units, up 65%. Yet profits failed to keep pace with volume because of higher prices for labor and materials. Average automobile costs last week were estimated to be 18% above a year...
...Finance, and Dean G. Acheson, Under Secretary of the Treasury, after the Warren and Rogers experimental period with the dollar, made it clear that "so-called conservative" financial policies would not be followed. Nevertheless Mr. Douglas retained his post for ten months in the hope that he might gain the ear of the President...
...Kitty Carlisle) in Monte Carlo, it takes him no time at all to learn that she considers radio crooners at the bottom of the social scale. He buys the hotel in which she and her imprudent relatives are living on their dubious credit, impersonates a menial effectively enough to gain his ends...