Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia to seek liberation through "armed struggle" as part of the "forces headed by the Soviet Union." Added Dulles: "No one in his senses could assert that it is in China's interests to shovel its youth and material resources into the fiery furnace of Korean war to gain South Korea, an area which means little to China but which, since the czars, has been coveted by Russia because of its strategic value as against Japan...
...comrades would obviously like to gain at the conference table what they seemed unable to win on the battlefield...
...Supremacy. The engine is of enormous importance to the U.S. in the global race to dominate the skies. As Rentschler and every other airman knows: "The engine is the key to air supremacy." To help the U.S. gain air supremacy, the armed forces are already rushing plans for production of new fighters and big intercontinental bombers-Boeing's giant B-52 and a sweptback-wing version of Convair's B-36-to use the new jet's fuel economy and power...
Soon, the big U.S. automakers will begin building United, Wright and other aircraft engines under license. Chrysler, for example, is building a plant near Detroit to make United's J-48, and Ford will make parts for the new J-57. In theory, the big gain in engine production will come then. But the crucial test is whether, by the time these plants come into production, suitable substitutes can be developed for the critical metals now desperately short. If they cannot, the engine program will fail because there is not enough nickel, columbium, etc. in sight now to build...
...Physics Department called for volunteers to teach Army and Navy students. This seemed his chance to gain experience in more rigorous sciences. Goodwin's background was weak--he had never had any physics or math--so he took a six-weeks refresher course before he got the job (he decided against teaching math; he didn't think he could get away with it). "It was nerve-wracking. I was one jump ahead of the class--good thing they didn't know it." He studied Physics A, while he taught Physics B. After awhile he was promoted to teach Physics...