Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living has vaulted 365% since 1948, 27% in the past two years. More than 120 billion cruzeiros, each worth four-fifths of a cent at the free-exchange rate, are bursting pocketbooks (v. only 20.5 billion, each worth 5.4?, ten years ago). From a $248 million foreign-trade gain in 1956, Brazil plummeted into a $97 million loss in 1957, a $166 million loss in 1958. Loan interest, loan repayments and massive installments on long-term debts this year will take a $338 million bite out of foreign exchange. Budget deficits were $214 million last year, $230 million the year...
...still another historic high. Led by some of the nation's biggest corporations, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average rose to 637.04 at midweek. By the final gong at week's end, profit taking had clipped only 2.51 points from the mark to put the weekly gain at 13.17 points...
...petition as a candidate for the Board of Overseers. Though the name of Col. Laurence E. Bunker '26 a former aide of Gen. MacArthur) did appear on the official ballot, and though half-page ads supporting him were inserted in Cleveland and Philadelphia newspapers, the Veritas candidate failed to gain election. In consequence, the group was reduced to its alumni mailings and sporadic contact with Harvard officials...
...opening of Leverett towers and Quincy provide an opportunity for complete non-resident membership which would be a real gain for commuters. The space opened could be used for expansion or deconversion, but commuters could be brought in without increasing crowding. In fact, the money which would otherwise be spent for a commuter center could be devoted to enlarging the present dining halls or building adjoining smaller rooms, and few other alterations would be needed: lockers would be installed, and a suite might be set aside for overnight use of commuters, but present use of the Dudley facilities suggests that...
...that splits bring higher prices, but this is not necessarily so. To push up the price the company must also raise the dividend. After a two-year study, C. Austin Barker reported in the Harvard Business Review that 75 companies that split their stock and raised the dividend quickly gained 18% in price over and above the rise in the market, held the gain six months later. But a group of 13 companies that split their stock without raising dividends temporarily gained only 5% in price, dropped back 8% below the market level by the end of six months. Nevertheless...