Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgo customary plantwide vacation shutdowns. Machine-tool manufacturers, jet-engine builders and even golf-club makers are swamped with orders. The stock market also perked up last week, prompting talk among analysts of a traditional summer rally. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 17 points to 894, its biggest gain in six weeks...
Secrecy is a fetish in the auto-rental business, but best estimates are that Chevrolet-sized Avis has upped its revenues by 34% in 1966, compared with Cadillac-sized Hertz's gain...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A murder trial becomes a way to gain revenge against a prominent family. Starring Pat O'Brien, Jack Lord, Sheree North and Dana Wynter. Repeat...
...California, at least 40 associations followed the controversial lead of Los Angeles-based Home Savings & Loan in raising rates on passbook accounts from 5% to 5¼%, and on longer, 36-month accounts, to 5¾%. That move seemed more successful; Home experienced a $2,600,000 savings gain in one day. But it brought angry criticism from other S & L men who cannot afford to match the increase...
...though many freshmen still show surprising strength, most political analysts expect Democrats to lose from 20 to 50 seats, Thus, there is a possibility that the Republicans will wipe out the 40-seat gain of 1964, although they are extremely unlikely to win the 77 seats they need to control the House...