Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determining factors about entering government service, he said, depend on the person's motivations and philosophy of life--whether he wants to gain wealth and fame, which he will not find in the government, or to serve his country and live a satisfying and rewarding life...
...Southeast Asia already is a battle-ground in many respects," Emerson said. Even if the French win in Indo-China, "they have lost much more there economically than they could hope to gain...
Governor Earl Warren of California discounted speculations in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon, that he was hoping for a deadlock between General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Robert A. Taft to gain the Republican presidential nomination. Warren had been scheduled to address the Harvard Young Republican Club today, but was forced to cancel the talk...
There were some mild cheers on Capitol Hill for the new special investigator, and also a few unkind cuts. The Senate subcommittee digging into sales at exorbitant profits of war surplus tankers let out reminders that a foundation headed by Morris is involved. (Morris has denied any personal gain from the transactions.) Michigan's Representative Charles E. Potter, an un-American Activities committeeman, accused Morris of having spoken before Communist-front groups ("Asinine," retorted Morris). Such G.O.P. men as Robert Taft and Richard Nixon could see nothing but a planned whitewash in the Morris inquiry...
...Rockefeller's whole trust had ever earned, in its heyday, was $83 million. In 1951, Socony-Vacuum, representing merely two of the 34 units into which the Supreme Court split the trust, earned nearly twice as much-a thumping $160 million ($5 per common share) and a 25% gain over 1950. At the news, Socony's directors declared a March dividend of 50?, up 25% from the last quarter, and Socony's stock pushed up to 40. Just ten years ago it sold...