Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment of Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, 43, as governor general of Algeria. When they heard the news, opposition Deputies cried "à la soupe!" (i.e., gravy). In his own Radical Party, Mendés had to face severe criticism. Said ex-Premier René Mayer: "This action may gain the Prime Minister votes from some other quarters, but it may well cost him an equal number from the ranks of his own comrades." Replied Mendès acidly: "I did not look up M. Soustelle's radical pedigree. I sought the man who could best serve France...
Much more serious than the practice of "canned answers" was the tutoring school habit of attempting to gain advance information about examinations. In one method, a member of the tutoring group would go to the examination, while all the others gathered with a tutor nearby. After glancing over the questions for a few minutes, their confederate inside would stroll nonchalantly out of the room for a smoke and then sprint for the rendez-vous, exam in hand. An experienced tutor could easily analyze an examination in a few minutes and deliver a quick lecture on the best answers. The tutorial...
...radio were permitted to transmit was a deftly-selected fragment of the press conference rather than the real thing. There is much merit in letting the country view and hear such White House sessions. This could be a device through which a lot of ordinary people might gain deeper intimacy with the business of government. But under the censorship rules the show is a GOP propaganda project rather than a recording of history...
...fledgling that has yet to find its wings is the air-freight business. Of 120 new lines that hopefully started up at the end of World War II, more than 50% went bust. Last year U.S. air freighters flew only 284 million ton-miles of cargo, a 3% gain over 1953, but barely one-tenth of 1% of the total cargo business...
...railroads, about 6? for trucks. The airlines cannot reduce the rates because their own costs are so high. American Airlines, Pan American and T.W.A. are all expanding air-cargo services; United Airlines jumped its business from 4,500,000 ton-miles in 1946 to 34 million, showed a 23% gain last year alone. Yet so far, not one company has reported a sizable profit from its cargo fleets...