Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROTC to drop 58 per cent, one of the largest losses in the nation. As a matter of interest, Harvard's freshman enrollment in Army ROTC dropped 37 per cent this year, also more than the national average; but the loss was more than compensated by a record-shattering gain of 308 per cent in Military Science III enrollment--largely students from the Harvard Law School...
...Southwest and certain families in Philadelphia and other coast cities. Mr. Sargent Shriver is the most prominent man of this group at the present time. To refer to him as a "Waspirant" is as insulting as it would have been to accuse Charles Carroll of Carrollton of trying to gain equality with John Adams. In both cases, the equality already existed. Also, your reference to the Veiled Prophet's Ball as a "Wasp event" is strange to anyone from the St. Louis area. We consider the Bakewells and the Desloges, the Chouteaus and Christys as the "inner core...
...also scored 1968's biggest gain in advertising revenues, climbing 9.8% to $549,501,900. CBS still held the overall lead in Broadcast Advertisers Reports billings, however, with $580,205,700 (down...
Fortunately, no jolting slowdown is expected. In its annual report, the President's Council of Economic Advisers foresaw a 6% gain (to $941 billion) in Gross National Product this year. Inflation should account for "a little more than 3%" of that growth and real output "less than 3% ." Real growth last year...
...healthy 22%, from $45 billion to $55 billion. Of 307 funds surveyed by Manhattan's Arthur Lipper Corp., 285 did better than the Dow-Jones average of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks, whose average 4.3% growth barely kept abreast of inflation. Altogether, 238 funds topped the 9.4% gain of the New York Stock Exchange's index of all its 1,249 common stocks...