Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie cameras in the Rose Garden to record a message to Sir Winston Churchill: "We shall never accept the thought that we are to be denied your counsel, your advice. Out of your great experience, your great wisdom and your great courage, the free world yet has much to gain...
...some respects, the OTC proposal does not go far enough. To be really effective, it would need powers of enforcement, but Congressional sentiment currently opposes such controls. As it stands, the organization could at least help gain the removal of "discriminatory restrictions" against 'United States' exports. By promoting the conversion of currency, OTC could encourage investments in underdeveloped and war-torn countries...
...question of whether or not to marry had been solved with the greatest difficulty. As in his study of barnacles, he had been careful to jot down all available evidence on the nature of the married state. Against it was: "Terrible loss of time, if many children forced to gain one's bread." But the advantages were pretty inviting: "Children (if it please God)-constant companion (& friend in old age)-charms of music & female chitchat . . . Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books . . ." In 1839 he married firm, kindly Emma Wedgwood...
...done for his own investigation. Baruch said that present restrictions on short selling to drive the market down are a good thing. He also pointed out that selling short often means low net returns for the risk involved because the speculator pays full income tax on any gain from short sales, whether he holds the stock a day or a year. Commented Chairman Fulbright: "Well, that certainly is news to me . . . That is quite a discouragement to short selling, isn't it?" Clean Record. Was anything really wrong with the market? Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Ralph Demmler gave...
...week's end both sides professed to be sure of victory. Wolfson, knowing his chance to gain control this year depends on being able to replace a majority of the directors, persuaded Cook County Circuit Court to declare that Ward's election system, under which only three of the nine directors are elected each year, was unconstitutional. Avery appealed, and last week the Illinois Supreme Court began hearing the case, announced that it would issue a ruling before the April 22 meeting...