Word: gained
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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...
...gain help in this struggle, this Frenchman...
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...
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...
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...