Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just like Christmas" was the way a Denver merchant described his sales last week. All over the U.S., despite the steel strike, retailers had the same kind of good news. Boston department-store sales spurted 6% above last year. Dallas stores chalked up a 16% gain. Sears, Roebuck reported monthly sales of $262 million, a new June record...
Actually, Taft was trading part of his Texas claim for the Georgia grab, and stood to gain votes in the process...
...steel strike entered its sixth week, the Office of Defense Mobilization made a grim announcement: the loss of steel production had "wiped out virtually all the gain so far from the expansion program that has been under way since Korea." The vast, complex U.S. economy was slowly being throttled down, yet scarcely anybody-except the strikers and the steel companies-seemed to care. The Administration was trying to wash its hands of the whole mess. Nevertheless, the hard facts of trouble were piling...
Italy, which mines less iron ore than tiny Luxembourg and depends on its neighbors for nine-tenths of its coal, has everything to gain and almost nothing to lose from the pool. Despite heckling by the largest membership of Communists in any Western European legislature, the Chamber of Deputies passed the Schuman Plan by a handsome 265-98 majority. Next step: the appointment of the nine-man High Authority to start the plan rolling. If all goes well, Western Europe should have a common market for coal, iron and steel by spring next year...
That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose...