Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief gain: a long period of labor peace and stabilized costs, permitting a planned multimillion-dollar expansion...
...actually owned by Johann Quantz, the greatest Baroque flute virtuoso, and lent by the Boston Fine Arts Museum from its Mason Collection of Instruments. Its tone is uniquely mellow and velvety, and well points up the fact that in the arts there is no progress, but only change. No gain is made without an equal loss...
MYSTERIOUS CAPITAL from abroad, possibly from Iron Curtain nations, is worrying SEC Chairman J. Sinclair Armstrong. Large amounts of foreign funds are coming into U.S. from Swiss and Canadian banks, which keep sources secret (accounts are known only by number). Possibility that Iron Curtain investors might try to gain secret control of vital U.S. corporations, says Armstrong, "is a matter of great concern...
...huge gain in production (50.76% of all autos sold in the U.S. last year) also brought much good, A.I.M. found. In the past 20 years, take-home pay of G.M. workers advanced by $3,435, while profits per employee rose only $1,233. And the Government, through increased taxes, benefited more from G.M.'s growth than the company's stockholders...
Debating the pro and con of huge corporations in general, A.I.M. said: "Their skill, research and gargantuan productive capacity may well have tipped the scales to retention of our freedom. But they must not become destructive to that freedom by gaining so much monopoly as to restrict freedom of choice, gain undue political power or even too large a share of the national product...