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Word: gained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shares of stock at $500 apiece, but had his troubles marketing them: investors were so dubious that it took six years to sell all the securities. Since then, each share has grown by splits to 105 shares, worth $7,800, has paid $14,000 in dividends. Total gain on each original share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: 100 Years of Dividends | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...gain help in this struggle, this Frenchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Lusty Giant. Last year the combined net operating income of the 16 big trunk lines was $51 million, a 50% gain over the 1949 figure. Profits are headed still higher this year (TIME, Feb. 12). Fatal accidents have dropped from 28 per 100 million passenger-miles in 1930 to 1.3 in 1949 (v. .08 for railroads and 2.0 for autos and taxis). Air travel accounted for 2.9% of intercity passengers carried by public carriers in the U.S. in 1950 (v. 37.1% for trains and 60% for buses) and 11.5% of the total passenger-miles racked up. But, said CAB Vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Up from the Mailbags | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Betsey Lyons, 16-yard-old Brookline star, teamed with James Philips '54 to gain the senior mixed pairs honors in the New England Figure Skating Championships in Boston yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Columbia couldn't have lost to anyone Saturday night--certainly not the Crimson basketball team, which played well and lost just the same 90 to 63. The Harvard made a good 30 percent of their shots--the Lions dropped in 54 percent in the first half to gain a 47 to 35 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Loses to Columbia, 90-63 | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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