Word: gain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conspired to gain control of the four newspapers after their acquisition by Lavarre & Hall...
...represents last week's loans-to-brokers. It was a new high record in brokers' loans with a $95,000,000 gain for the week. It was also considerably higher than the figures prevailing during the Reserve Board v. Stock Market excitement last February and March...
Last week there was action in embattled Hollywood, where Actors' Equity Association (theatre union) is struggling to gain dominion over cinemactors. Observers were delighted. Previously the pother had lacked punch (TIME, July 8). Chief among Equity desires is that cinemactors shall be forced to work under protective Equity contracts, which regulate working hours and conditions...
...race to rope in the entire South American continent with air lines. To the winners (for no one of the five major con tenders is likely to gain monopoly in any one region) great profits are in store. There is mail to be carried and the governments as a matter of public policy pay handsomely.* Although none of the lines expect to carry much bulky express for years to come, there are precious diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, egret feathers and in districts where businessmen distrust checks, cash to be carried...
Said he: "It is chiefly the press that has raised its voice loudest against the principle of medical ethics that places a taboo on advertising by the physician. It is readily admitted that the lifting of the ban . . . would result in a great financial gain to the press...