Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flown to Peking to seek freedom for eleven American flyers and other U.N. soldiers captured while fighting in Korea. He brought back some hope for their release and some insight into the tortuous mind of their chief jailer, Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. In time, the gain may compensate for the loss to the U.N.'s prestige by his journey, which was heralded in Asia as a "great diplomatic victory for Red China." Hong Kong's anti-Communist newspaper Sing Tao Man Pao commented bitterly: "Hammarskjold went as a lung [dragon] but came back...
Both governments stood to gain by making the Plate a thoroughfare again, and after the election last November of Luis Batlle Berres (TIME, Dec. 13) as Uruguay's new Council President, both sides agreed to a midriver meeting between Batlle Berres and Argentina's Interior Minister (and acting Foreign Minister) Angel Gabriel Borlenghi. Last week, as a result of that meeting, Argentina abolished the police permit for travel across the Plate, and on both sides of the river ferryboats promptly took aboard crowds of passengers...
...only helped give a boost to such peace stocks as autos (up 112%) but also brought about repatriation of big French investments in Indo-China. Aciéries de Longwy (steel) jumped from $38 a share to $73; Suez Canal shares rose nearly 50% to $350. Most spectacular gain: Esso Standard of France, which soared almost 1,000% following the discovery of oil near Bordeaux (TIME, Sept...
Lower income bracket students would not gain much directly, however, for they can claim the 30 percent credit only on the part of their tuition not covered by scholarship...
...contrast, the nationalized coal industry did badly. When the miners won a general wage increase a year ago, they agreed with the National Coal Board that a production increase of 2½% (about 5,000,000 tons) was "a reasonable minimum aim." But when 1954 figures were published, the gain was a mere 270,000 tons. As a result, the Coal Board had to import 2,000,000 tons during the year; in the first nine months it suffered a $9,800,000 loss...