Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planners precisely the information they most need if they are to knock us out with a surprise attack. This plan was put forward not to be accepted but to be rejected. By this means we are to prove to the world the insincerity of Russian pretensions and thus gain a great propaganda advantage. That is, we are to prove Russian insincerity by demonstrating our own insincerity. The Geneva Conference did give us a wonderful opportunity to prove our own good intentions and to expose soviet duplicity, but this opportunity was missed...
...prospect of higher prices. Dun & Bradstreet reported that 35% of the businessmen questioned in a poll planned to carry bigger inventories (compared to 29% last April). The Department of Commerce noted that at the end of May, dollar value of manufacturers' inventories totaled $43.6 billion, a one-month gain of $300 million...
Sales to Western Europe showed the largest gain, exports of $1,068,549,000 in the first quarter v. $687,818,000 last year. Latin American nations came next, buying $749,775,000, a gain of close to $40 million, and Canada, the biggest single U.S. customer, bought $692,685,000, a boost of more than $40 million. Sales to Asia, Australia and New Zealand reached $614,195,000, up almost $70 million, and African purchases increased about $41 million...
During the first four months U.S. imports were 4.3% heavier than they were last year. Again, Europe showed the biggest gain, selling $568,568,000 in the U.S., a gain of better than $100 million over year-ago volume. Imports from Canada went up $43 million, to $579,853,000, while Asia, Australia and New Zealand sold $480,510,000 worth of products here, v. $463,968,000 a year ago. The only drop was in imports from Latin America (most of the decline was caused by lower coffee prices) and Africa...
...other committees probed vague charges that other businessmen in Government had used their official positions for private gain, while, before the House Banking Committee, an Administration bill to encourage businessmen to take Government jobs was having a rough time. The Administration wants to renew the Defense Production Act, which authorizes the employment of businessmen "without compensation," called WOCs in Potomac slang. (They are the latter-day successors of the famed dollar-a-year men, but receive not even the dollar since Congress in 1950 authorized the Government to accept the services of individuals without compensation...