Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm laborers who in 1834 were transported to the penal colony at Australia's Botany Bay for attempting to form a trade union. The memory includes the General Strike of 1926, the massive unemployment of the Great Depression, the perennial pain of class distinctions, the furious battles to gain labor's rights. It has left British labor with what Labor Journalist John Cole calls a "Maginot outlook," in which strikes are called not so much for higher wages as for preserving some time-honored way of doing a job. A belligerent sense of "them" and "us" still pervades...
...fell 12.59 points for a tenth consecutive Monday loss. Tuesday, the industrials slipped another 1.89 points on the largest single-day volume (9,830,000 shares) in three months. On Wednesday came a 9.41-point rally-only to be followed by two days of loss that wiped out the gain. Ending the week at 780.56, the industrials thus showed a five-day loss of 24.06 points (and a two-week drop of 59.97) and stood as low as they have since January 1964. In all, since February Big Board prices have dropped 22% and $104 billion in stock values have...
...inflation is spreading across the U.S. economy at the fastest rate in years. Since January, the prices consumers pay for goods and services have shot up at a 3½-a-year pace. Last week the Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose .4% in July-the sixth monthly gain in a row. This lifted the nation's consumer price index to a record 113.3, or 13.3% above the base average of the years 1957-59. On top of that, wholesale prices-which normally foreshadow the future course of consumer prices-gained .7% in July after four months...
...festival press previewers, the distributors fear that the papers would give the film less attention later on, when it counts-in its general release. "Festivals are fine," sums up one studio executive, "for Polish, Russian and Czech companies. They have nothing to lose and a great deal to gain...
While Alexander Calder early became a world figure by giving movement to sculpture with his mobiles, and Jacques Lipchitz developed his own tragic vision in the New World while still using traditional casting techniques, David Smith seemed to gain strength from wrestling directly with the raw materials of the steel age. His own work, Smith insisted, should be viewed both with the eye of a poet and of a workman, and he was proud that he had mastered his craft. A dropout from Ohio University after his freshman year, Smith studied art under John Sloan in New York...