Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comet I is De Havilland's current model; the Comet II, due for delivery late in 1953, will have a range of 2,000 miles, (v. the present 1,750) and a speed of better than 500 m.p.h.; the Comet III's chief gain will be in capacity (60 to 75 passengers v. the present...
Another Gallup poll showed that, among union workers, Governor Stevenson and the Democrats are favored by 67%, the Republicans by only 33%. This, however, is a gain for the Republicans of 7 percentage points over...
...only use a woman spy has is to gain information by seducing a senior officer . . . and subsequently blackmailing him into giving further information by threatening to report him to his security officer or, worse still perhaps, his wife...
...Princeton ('53). He particularly remembers Stevenson's Hudson Super-Six roadster, which, to be kept in high gear, had to have someone sitting beside the driver to hold the gearshift. This need for a companion in his car, Hackney feels, may have helped Stevenson gain sixth place, in a field of 22, in the yearbook classification, "Thinks He Is the Biggest Fusser [i.e., Ladies' Man]." Hackney and Stevenson toured Spain in the summer of 1921, several times got into trouble when the locals mistook Stevenson's friendly remarks, delivered in faulty Spanish, for insults; after...
Fast-growing television, with a take of $388.4 million, turned in the biggest percentage gain (93.3%). TV's share of the U.S. advertising pot nearly doubled, from 3.5% to 6%. The share of newspapers (34.7%), radio (10.9%) and magazines (8.9%) shrank slightly, though dollar volume rose. The dollar leaders: newspapers, $2.2 billion, up 8.8%; direct mail, $923.7 million, up 15%; radio, $712.3 million, up 6.7%; magazines, $573.7 million...