Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years has the stock market had such a wide-swinging week. In one day the Dow-Jones industrial index shot up 7.99 points, the biggest gain since Sept. 5, 1939, after World War II began. Next day prices dropped 7.18 points, the biggest break since March 14, when investors were scared by the Fulbright committee...
...over as president of 91-year-old American News Co. Percy D. O'Connell retired as president but will remain board chairman and consultant. Critical of sagging sales and profits (last year's net was down $2,251,155 from 1952), Garfinkle and associates spent millions to gain stock control of the company, biggest U.S. magazine distributor. Victor D. Ziminsky will stay on as president of the firm's wholly owned subsidiary, Union News Co., which runs newsstand and restaurant concessions as well as Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza skating rink. As a boy, Garfinkle helped support...
...such gain marks the record in Asia. The Korean truce was popular with the U.S. public because it ended the bloodshed and brought the boys home from a war that was getting nowhere. But the Korean truce hurt the anti-Communist cause in Asia; the damage was compounded by the failure in Indo-China. The Geneva agreement, giving much of Viet Nam to the Reds, marked the low point of anti-Communism in Asia. Some observers thought that the descent continued with Eisenhower's expressed willingness to negotiate a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. The President believed that...
...approaches the four-power talks at the summit, Eisenhower is ready to enter into any honorable negotiation, but he has made it clear that he has no intention of negotiating away territory, of trading away Formosa or Germany, to gain a Communist signature on a scrap of paper. He proposes to operate from a position of strength, in cooperation with other nations of the free world. "Only strength can cooperate," he told a New Hampshire crowd last week. "Weakness cannot cooperate; it can only...
...closed hearings before the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, four U.S. airlines protested the deal. Only T.W.A., which stands to gain a new route through Germany, was for the agreement. Angry and scornful, the other lines called the State Department negotiators "stupid" and "inept," argued that they had been maneuvered into handing the Germans the entire Western Hemisphere on a silver platter...