Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most workers trade in company stores and are completely dependent on the plantation owners. About two-thirds are illiterate; some know no English, speak only a Cajun patois. Four-fifths are Negroes. Major objective of the strike is not to seek improvements in wages or living standards, but to gain recognition of the union...
...industry profits bubbled higher, oil shares came to life on the stock exchange. Shell's net of $30 million was up 52% from 1952 (when one refinery was closed by a strike); Phillips Petroleum scored a 23% gain. And while the Texas Co.'s earnings were only 2% higher (at $47 million), directors considered the outlook so good that they declared an extra dividend of 40?. Railroad stocks picked up with the news that Baltimore & Ohio, with nine-month earnings up from $18 million to $21 million, was raising its dividend by 25? to $1 a share. Douglas...
...telephones in the quarter and handled more long-distance calls than ever before, netted $104 million, v. $89 million last year. Among the soapmakers, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's earnings slipped 21% to $2,400,000, while burgeoning Procter & Gamble (TIME, Oct. 5) racked up a gain of 13%, to $14 million...
...only one topic approaching importance has been manufactured. The report for reorganizing Boston's schols, the so-called Harvard Plan, has been distorted on all sides to gain quick, inexpensive publicity...
Steinert believes Plan E government would be "emasculated" as "only the politically-minded candidates will go through the torture of two campaigns; only those who have personal gain in mind...