Word: gain
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...Zanuck, "have put motion back in motion pictures and put the industry back in high gear." It was Zanuck's exploitation of the road show, beginning with The Longest Day in 1962, that turned the Fox ledger's $40 million loss that year into a $12.5 million gain in 1966. Altogether this year, the studios will release eight road-show films, next year at least ten. Last week half of Variety's top ten grossers in the U.S.-Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sand Pebbles, A Man for All Seasons, Grand Prix, and The Taming of the Shrew-were...
Abroad, Pentecostalism has spread to more than 90 nations from Australia to South Africa and South Korea to Finland. Nowhere has it found more ardent followers than in Brazil. There are now 2,600,000 Pentecostalists in that nominally Catholic country-a gain of 1,100,000 since 1962. A major reason for the harvest is that, despite the Brazilians' traditionally easygoing approach to religion, many seem to be drawn by the intimacy and fervor of Pentecostal services, the joyous and uninhibited hymn singing, and the upright rigidity of the church's moral standards (no smoking or drinking...
...composite index of all common-stock issues on three straight days eclipsed its May 8 peak of $51.93, reaching $52.18 at week's end. Reflecting a suddenly renewed popularity among blue-chip issues, the better-known Dow-Jones industrial average rose every day for a 27.51-point gain on the week to 909.56, only .07 points below its 1967 high. Since July 1, the Dow barometer has risen nearly 50 points, or 5.8%, erasing more than two-thirds of its 1966 decline...
...those 26 companies, only ten paid dividends last year or have declared dividends so far in 1967. Recent financial statements showed virtually no earnings gains for five, while one suffered a decline and two more actually lost money. Yet the price of 23 of the stocks has at least doubled this year-though some have subsequently slipped. Even with 100% margins, which exchange officials insist are generally effective in curbing speculative trading, some of the 26 issues continued to gain last week. Scurry Rainbow Oil rose $9.50 to $43 on rumors of an ore find and reports (later denied...
...ladies have definite ideas of what they expect to gain from their visit. Says Mrs. Nguyen Thi Hai, 45, president of Nguyen Thi Hai Pharmaceutical Co.: "Until now, France was our model in business. Now it is the United States." Miss Nguyen Thi Dong Thanh, 31, a teacher turned manager of the Merry Realm Juice Milk Co., is anxious to learn enough to "catch up with my other friends who are in business." A younger businesswoman, Miss Truong Thi Bich Tuy, 25, runs Saigon's Socipha Drug Company, which is owned by her father. Why is she at Harvard...