Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge equal to the cost of shipping from Detroit, no matter where cars are shipped from. Dealers close to auto plants complain that bootleggers can pick up cars in Detroit without paying the charge, ship them around the country for less than the factory-set freight, thus gain an unfair advantage...
...last year the U.S. Justice Department objected to A.A.A.A.'s powerful influence in the business, charged it with restraining trade by fixing agency fees (TIME, May 9). Last week, with little to gain by going into court and little to lose by settling, A.A.A.A. signed a consent decree with Chief Trustbuster Stanley Barnes. (Suits against five other associations are still unsettled...
...Republican majority in the legislature will probably pass the referendum, since the Republicans "can only gain" from a change, according to Edward Martin, Cambridge reporter of the Boston Record and an unsuccessful Council candidate last fall. The last Republican Councilor, Marcus Morton was defeated in the November elections...
...knowledge only in the universities. The Institute for Advanced Study, of course, has retained him as its head, and his lectures at the University of Oregon last year were described as "a fresh breeze blowing across the badlands." In a sense, the Government's loss is Harvard's gain, and the University can be glad that there are no unbending security regulations here to prohibit a series of lectures that should considerably enliven the Spring...
Kefauver, whose decision climaxed a triumphant threeday, 800-mile stump of Wisconsin, figured he had everything to gain and Stevenson everything to lose. A Stevenson defeat, with nearly every top Minnesota Democrat backing him, could be his Waterloo. Even a fairly strong showing by Estes would tarnish Adlai's luster...