Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hero. "The 'socially integrated' intellectual is really not an intellectual at all, but an expert servant," says Molnar. "For if Western society has suffered a single great loss in the last hundred years, it is the principle of authority, and it is questionable whether the single great gain during the same period, the conquest of science, can make...
...hired more workers than they separated. In August new claims for unemployment benefits dropped to 173,300, the lowest level in two years. Though farm income -the economy's soft spot-dipped 4% below last year for the first seven months, receipts for July took the normal seasonal gain over June, rose 10%, to $2.1 billion. "Most farmers," said Under Secretary True D. Morse, "are keeping financially sound...
...record, by Perón's own accounting, is mediocre at best. Gross national product climbed by about one-third between 1945 and 1954. But meanwhile the population increased from 15 million to 19 million, so that the net per capita gain amounted to only 10%-an unremarkable showing for a decade in which many Western nations raised their living standards by a good deal more than 10%. (U.S. gain: about 18%.) The index of industrial output rose from 76 in 1945 to 100 in 1950, but at that point stagnation set in: last year the index was still...
...Church membership in the U.S. climbed to a record 97,482,611 in 1954, a gain of 2,639,766 over 1953, according to the Yearbook of American Churches. Today 60.3% of all Americans are members of religious bodies...
...mainspring of this economic expansion is population. Right now, U.S. population is in the midst of its greatest buildup of the 20th century. By 1975 it can reasonably be expected to reach 221 million-an increase in 20 years equal to its total gain during the first 40 years of the century. Expanding apace with this lusty market, the U.S. economy should continue to create more and more jobs...