Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shoot the Works. From the standpoint of total production, the U.S. was never more productive or more prosperous. Output of goods & services rose to $325 billion, nearly 15% above the previous peak, in 1950. Almost half this gain was due to higher prices, but the important half was due to increased productivity, thanks to more and newer machines...
Moreover, the whole country is growing along with its plants. The 1951 crop of about 3,900,000 babies outran the Census Bureau's predictions by 450,000. The population, now about 155 million (a 15% gain in a decade), was expected to reach 170 million by the 1960 census, but now it looks as if it might reach 180 million. The U.S. has already reached a higher plateau of consuming as well as producing capacity...
Over the rest of the country, sales figures show more appreciable declines than those in the Boston area. Seven out of 12 Federal Districts suffered declines. Only Cleveland, where last year's Christmas sales were crippled by a severe snow-storm, showed an appreciable gain in profit...
...final possibility is for extremist effendi reactionaries to oust Mossadegh by some coup. "If the effendi can do this." Brinton says, "They will almost certainly re-establish good relations with the West, realizing this is probably the only way they will be able to gain a sure lease on life for themselves...
...years of soaring in the U.S. and the Swiss Alps behind him, Comte knew how dangerous a thunderhead can be.* But if it boosted him high enough, he could coast down to Bloemfontein. And he would earn two coveted "diamonds" for his gold gliding badge: one for an altitude gain of at least 16,700 ft., the other for a flight of at least 186 miles to a predetermined point...