Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started out with lower cash incomes than most of the U.S. (but grew much of their own food), their incomes shot up faster than anyone else during World War II and in the postwar boom. From 1939 through 1951, per capita farm incomes zoomed from $244 to $970, a gain of almost 300%; at the same time, non-farm incomes climbed only 175% to $1,735. And farmers have managed to hang on to most of the gain. Historically, farm prices have plummeted at least 50% after a war; in the years since the Korea peak, the drop has been...
Tonight's meeting will probably be WHRB's last attempt this year to gain approval of their broadcast request--a request it has submitted for the past three years. In the past, WHRB was turned down down because the University had already signed a contract with local station...
...operations so as to prevent abuses of the rights of government workers. These protests evidently had little effect on the administration until last January when Harry Cain, a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board, publicly attacked the loyalty program in a speech in Spokane, Wash. Cain, unable to gain Administration support, continued to press for action, lobbying actively for a bi-partisan commission to review the operation of the loyalty program. After the President rejected this proposal, Cain secured the support of Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey who sponsored a congressional resolution creating the commission under legislative direction...
Morrill said the Coop's program for expansion, which will not become effective until approximately the fall of 1957, is mainly to gain more selling space rather than make room for new goods...
...Cumming's story is a more ambitious attempt both in its stylistic devices and in its deeper search for his subject's psychic needs. Although Cummins shows some insight into the insecurity of a fatherless Negro boy, his experiments with style are not half so successful. In order to gain immediacy Cummins uses the present tense throughout his narration, a dangerous and difficult patli on which he slips occasionally, especially when attempting to introduce background information...