Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since 1929 there has been a net gain of only 9,000 Presbyterians; congregations have had to put six members on the suspended list for every seven received...
...trading on the New York Stock Exchange fell to 7,229,000 shares, smallest for any month since August 1918. But stock prices rose 5%, first month-to-month gain since last July...
None of these increases has hurt cigaret sales. Largely because most soldiers and sailors are walking smokestacks, April cigaret production jumped 10% to 17 billion, highest ever and the 17th consecutive monthly gain...
...When uniformity comes we will have ceased to be free men. Those who would reduce us to a collection of parrots do not know the meaning of America. It is from our diversity that we sharpen our wits, gain in initiative and strength over regimented peoples. That is the whole distance between the spirit of America and the spirit of totalitarianism...
...land or sea action is possible unless fighter planes can gain control of the air, he replied to critics of his lately published book "Victory Through Air Power," backing up his argument with the British failures in Malaya and Burma, and with the abortive German attempt at an invasion of England...