Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier the King picked his court minister, tall, slim Hazza el Majali, 39. Educated as a lawyer, Majali is a Bedouin who grew up in a black tent and rode fiery horses in the desert. His appointment was a gain for the powerful Bedouin families, always the Hashemite throne's most loyal supporters...
Commenting on the results of the poll, Jonathan H. Morgan '59, president of Students for Humphrey, claimed that Humphrey's "relatively strong third place reflects his rapidly rising strength." He asserted that the Minnesota Senator will gain "even more support...
There is no doubt that Feiffer receives great satisfaction from his work. Even though he is only thirty, it took a long time for his work to gain any acceptance beyond the limited audience of the Village Voice, a weekly published in Greenwich Village to which Feiffer contributed cartoons before they were collected and published in his first book...
...Whereas residents consume valuable dormitory space, commuters are a kind of "super-cargo," and in the face of tougher and tougher competition, the local boy will find it increasingly easier to gain admission to Harvard as a commuter than, say, to Yale as a resident. More and more, he will have to choose between "living in" at a less than first rate college, or living with his family and attending Harvard...
...Piedmont Airlines, a feeder line, has installed Lear instrument-landing equipment on eight of its planes, has found it "very satisfactory." Ozark Air Lines, another feeder, has also signed up. Lear profits in the first quarter of its fiscal year ran 33% ahead of 1958 (which registered an 87% gain over 1957) to better than $400,000. The backlog of firm orders was up to $77 million, biggest in the company's history, and a 10? dividend was declared, the third such quarterly dividend in a row. Last week Bill Lear was looking for more. He got ready...