Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first congressional election after Franklin D. Roosevelt became President, and the only off-year election in this century that gave the party in power a net gain in House seats...
...government agencies ... It is said that the church should go into these spheres, but the fact is that the church is already [there] in the persons of its laity . . . The Christian who for example, throws himself into the social and political struggle should be actively encouraged and considered a gain, not a loss, to the church. There is need to change the [church] atmosphere ... of an oldfashioned, middle-class culture . .. A tendency to choose the lay leadership of a congregation from among white-collar workers often prevents others, especially young industrial workers, from feeling at home in the church...
LUMBER STRIKE, which started 2½ months ago when some 100,000 Pacific Northwest lumbermen walked out for a 12.5? hourly wage boost, is ending with little gain for the workers. About half the strikes were settled piecemeal, with raises averaging 5? an hour. The other strikers are expected to go back to work at pre-strike wages, let a fact-finding board recommend a settlement...
...motion before the ball is snapped. There is ample opportunity for the organized confusion of trick plays and hipper-dipper, crowdpleasing football. There are no time outs except for injury, and Canadian football takes on an even more frantic pace because a team is allowed only three downs to gain ten yards. Passes come fast and frequently as quarterbacks shoot for the distance. The ball changes hands so often that kicking takes on an exaggerated importance. Downfield, a punt receiver is allowed no fair catches, gets only the dubious protection of a five-yard safety zone until the ball...
...committee also turned up a new group of builders who had made millions in windfall profits. A whopping gain was made by Real Estate Dealer Alexander Hirsch and several other shareholders in Brooklyn's 2,496-unit Farragut Gardens apartments. Hirsch testified that the group had put up only $15,000 of its own money to receive an FHA-insured loan of almost $22 million. Since the project cost only $18 million, the promoters pocketed the $4,000,000 difference. A committee investigator who had looked over the apartments found leaking roofs, cracked plaster, and testified that unless extensive...