Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy is a wise one. While loans to Latin governments for national improvements will continue, it is wrong for Washington to compete with private banking houses in a field that offers a legitimate area of profit. Nor is the Government willing to continue using budgeted funds to finance private gain in foreign countries...
...Convention, which claims to be the fastest-growing major U.S. denomination, last week released a striking progress report. During 1953, the Southern Baptists built themselves 631 new churches, and increased their church giving by 12.4% for an all-time high of $278,851,129. Sunday-school enrollment showed a gain of 268,072 (present total: 5,759,128), and 361,835 people were baptized. Present membership...
...high. Bears could argue that the averages included only 65 stocks, thus were not the best measure of the market's strength. But many stocks not in the averages were also climbing. The January figures for all 1,532 stocks on the New York Exchange showed an average gain of $1.96 a share and the highest average price ($42.03) since last February...
...stockholder's income. Republicans have defended the plan on the ground that millions would benefit from it, because of the wide ownership of stocks. While it is true that members of industry's many pension plans (which are big buyers of stocks) would stand to gain in the long run from lower taxes on dividends, the facts of direct stock ownership tell a different story. The Brookings Institution has found that only 4.2% of the U.S. population own stocks. A recent Harvard survey showed that between two-thirds and three-quarters of the nation's stocks...
...growing problem was posed. The problem: the danger of racketeering in the administration of big union welfare and pension funds. The man who posed it was Martin E. Segal, Manhattan consultant for nearly 500 such funds. Said he: "Some individuals have used the welfare funds for their own private gain rather than for the benefit of the workers and their families...