Word: gain
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...heights late in 1966. It was a troublesome legacy, even through the April-June quarter when businessmen liquidated their stocks of appliances, hardware and other durable goods at a $600 million-a-year pace. One persistent casualty of the sell-off was industrial production, which not only failed to gain but this summer slipped to 2% below its level of a year earlier. Since spring of last year, the nation's factories have reduced their operations from 91% to 84% of capacity...
...industry, climbing from an annual rate of 1,111,000 private starts in January to 140% of that level. On the other hand, retail sales-which normally account for two-thirds of what consumers spend.-rose barely faster than consumer prices, which jumped 21%, on top of a 3% gain...
...buys it, does not this add considerably to the cost of food in the supermarket? Furthermore, as a nation, we still enjoy the lowest food costs (in terms of annual income of consumers) of any industrial nation. True, hunger stalks half the world, but the U.S. farmer will not gain much by giving food away-the good feeling one gets from acts of charity will not help pay off the implement and fertilizer companies. Perhaps what concerns me the most is that a city slum dweller with an income of less than $3,000 a year becomes a prime target...
Also at the ECAC meeting, it was interesting to note that Samborski was the only Ivy athletic director to vote to limit football substitutions. Harvard, which personally has the biggest, deepest, and most talented squad in the League, would seem to have the most to gain from unlimited substitution. He explained his vote by saying that some of the players he had talked to wanted to play both ways...
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) made a fastpaced five-hour trip to Boston yesterday, in an effort to gain support for his forthcoming primary battle with President Johnson...