Word: gained
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...three. It found that the sale to Bethlehem Steel Corp. of the McClintic-Marshall Construction Corp., of which he was one of four stockholders, was not a reorganization as he claimed and that his estimated $6,549,000 profits from the deal therefore represented an actual taxable gain. Net result of the Board's decision, although it allowed many of the deductions and was hailed by his executors as "another victory for Mr. Mellon," was to make them liable to an estimated $600,000 in additional taxes. These they promptly announced would be appealed to the Circuit Court...
Weeks before in the Walt Disney offices in far Hollywood, Ted H. Osborne had conceived a Mickey Mouse comic strip episode in which a Duke Varlott plots to gain the mythical throne of Medioka from his under-age nephew, King Michael. The Mickey Mouse strip is distributed by Hearst King Features Syndicate, one of whose clients is the Belgrade Politika. First Regent of Yugoslavia today is Prince Paul, first cousin once removed of King Peter, a minor, an analogy to the Mickey Mouse comic which few foreign papers failed to draw when fortnight ago Mickey Mouse was suppressed from Politika...
When Media Records, which measures newspaper advertising, last week released its November figures for New York City, the Herald Tribune had piled up a nice Sunday gain on its competitor, the Times. Compared with November 1936, the Times lost an average of five pages of advertising each Sunday while the Herald Tribune made a fractional gain. Ordinarily such a record calls for prolonged professional crowing, but the Herald Tribune has been in no mood to crow since Sunday, November 21, when the paper carried as "Section XII" a 40-page glorification of Cuban Boss Fulgencio Batista's illiberal regime...
...extremely well," said Leet in an interview yesterday. "By lowering portable seismographs into the well and exploding dynamite at successively greater depths, 500 ft., 1000 ft., and 2000 ft., we were able to gain perfect records at every position. We also made some surface record...
Once the most popular field, English has dropped to third place behind Economics and Government, failing from 25 percent in 1927 to 12.2 percent this year. Most striking gain in the past few years has been registered by the Department of Government, whose concentrators have more than doubled in five years. Social science concentrators as a whole have increased from 28 percent to 39.5 percent in the same period...