Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faltering regime of Premier Mario Scelba, who might gain a few months' more of power from a solid Christian-Democratic victory in his native Sicily...
...Local Gain. Until World War II, Sicily contributed far more to Italy than Italy ever gave back. "They grow fat up north with our money," is an old Sicilian com plaint. But in its postwar autonomy, Res tivo and his colleagues are able to claim, Sicily has got 8,500 new schoolrooms, 3,026 kilometers of sorely needed new roads, 131,000 rooms of new housing, a new water system for 247 communities. Total investment by Rome and the regional government in eight years: about $1.5 billion. Tourist business is booming (helped among other things by the visit to ancient...
...equally wide margin. Every Central director was re-elected overwhelmingly, and the stockholders also approved a stock option plan for Central President Alfred E. Perlman, by which he can buy 32,000 shares at $19.88 per share, over a period of years, thus stand to net a capital-gain profit of $672,000 (at current prices...
...American Power Boat Association, the national sanctioning body, has also expressed definite interest in a possible revival of the sport. It hopes to hold Intercollegiate Championships in 1956, after colleges have had a year to organize teams and gain experience, provided a start can be made next fall...
When counting stopped for the night the Conservatives had scored a net gain of ten House of Commons seats, with good prospects of winding up with an over-all majority of perhaps...