Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago a thug hurled acid into the face of labor columnist Victor Riesel. The attack came only hours after Riesel's radio attack both of those racketeers who are attempting to gain control of labor unions, and of William DeKoning's domination of the Operating Engineers Union. The incident was described by the U.S. Attorney investigating racketeering in New York industry as "a black effort to intimidate witnesses." Governor Harriman decried the attempt to limit "freedom of speech," and Mayor Wagner called it "shame." The Operating Engineers Union agreed and added another thousand dollars to the growing reward...
...English, Fine Arts, and Music Departments by limiting the number of courses a student may take in writing, painting, or performing. These departments wisely decided that a student interested in writing, for example, will have ample time in later life to write, but little time or desire to gain background knowledge. These restrictions are especially applicable to theatre at Harvard because many participants already spend more time on their play and it social accompaniments than on studies...
...approved $30,332,390 in loans, an increase of 20% over the previous six months. But SBA's proudest accomplishment is channeling a bigger share of Government contracts to small business. This year, said SBA, the Government will boost to $158 million its contracts with small businessmen, a gain of more than 100% over...
...career. Biow founded his company during World War I at the age of 25, and quickly proved himself a nimble idea man. For his first big account he coined the phrase "Bulova Watch Time." For Eversharp, Inc. he invented radio's $64 Question, saw the sum of money gain such renown that TV's current $64,000 Question pays him a royalty. He found a midget bellhop, assigned him the $20,000-a-year job of shrilling "Call for Philip Morris!" By 1952, with an annual billing of $50 million, Biow Co. ranked as the eighth biggest...
...original play form, Jean-Paul Sartre's Dirty Hands was hailed throughout the free world as a powerful indictment of the Communist Party's credo--"The end justifies the means." But the play, and certainly the movie, gain their force from a dual message--the search of the individual for faith in himself as well as for faith in the Party...