Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Want to Stay." Capitol Hill Democrats are, in the way of Democrats, optimistic about 1954. Last week any Democratic leader on the Hill would bet that they will win control of the House in 1954 (a net gain of five seats will do it). They do not think they can win control of the Senate, but only because too many doubtful seats now held by Democrats will be on the block. No one is saying just what roles Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson will play in the 1954 campaigns. Said Truman recently: "If it will help for me to stay...
...blew even more, withdrawing $25 million from private savings accounts in less than two weeks. Receipts from U.S. tourists brought in a useful $17 million, the equivalent of two weeks of British exports to the U.S., but the loss of coal production (over 1,000,000 tons) offset this gain...
...next night in St. Louis it was the turn of another pitcher, a righthander this time, to face New York's No. 7. To gain the slight advantage which lefthanded batters are religiously believed to enjoy against righthanded pitchers (and vice versa), switch-hitting Mickey Mantle batted lefthanded. He let four pitches go by, then drove the fifth into the right center-field stands 405 feet for another homer. All in all. Mantle's week was an excellent demonstration of why pitchers turn grey. It was also one of several good reasons why the 1953 New York Yankees have opened...
CARRIER Corp.'s President Cloud Wampler expects an 82 % gain in room air-conditioner sales this year (to 750,000), and estimates that 60,000 new houses will be equipped with year-round air conditioning...
Chrysler was next on Reuther's list, and it promptly fell in line with Ford. Then Reuther went back to G.M. and persuaded it to grant the pension increase. He had another gain, achieved just in the nick of time. The autoworkers cost-of-living increases (or decreases) were switched from the old to the new cost-of-living index. Last week, the new index, which comprises more items, edged a fraction lower, while the old index dropped 1.1%-enough to have caused a 2? hourly wage cut under the autoworkers' old contract...