Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENERAL FOODS chalked up its best record in history for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1954: net sales of $783 million and profits of $27.9 million, a 12% gain over...
...take such threats and actions in their stride, as part of their occupation. I think we broadcasters can afford a certain amount of the same stride in the face of our letter-writing, telegraph and telephone critics. If we are fair and responsible in our decisions, we will gain the approval and the respect of the large majority of the people...
...unfortunate that it takes a constitutional crisis to alert conservatives to a moral issue. Conservative morality, economy-minded as it is, is not so much wrong as it is porous and shallow. Merit is figured in terms of loss or gain. So, mink coats, a legitimate political issue, is raised as a moral issue, an oblique one when compared to a basic moral issue such as the violation of a Truman order protecting FBI loyalty files from unauthorized persons as McCarthy. When a fundamental moral issue as McCarthyism arises, it is ignored. No one, as yet, has measured the loss...
...start an insurance company. There is nothing to prevent a promoter from writing up his assets far beyond actual value and, on this inflated base, selling stock and insurance. By such devices he can build a company up from nothing, sell out and take a capital gain. For these reasons Texas now has 1,884 insurance companies, more than all other states combined, and insurance is the state's second biggest business (after oil). Many of the promoters, for lack of a better corporate name, borrow a respected one from Britain: Lloyd's. In the last 16 months...
...formation of the Conservative Club was met with fanatical protests from liberals before it could finally gain recognition. I think the Green Feather group should have to go through some of the red tape we went through...