Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While building her web, Aranea puts up "scaffolding" (later discarded) to gain a foothold. But, if necessary, she can walk on the glued strands: she has oil on her feet which keeps them from sticking...
...apiece. And when they sold 4,028 of Levittown's rental houses (leaving them only 1,600 rental units) to Philadelphia's Junto School (TIME, March 13) for $5,150,000, a big chunk of it was clear profit, taxable at 25% as a long-term capital gain...
Industrial expansion, which had been expected to drop by 11% this year, was on the rise again. The Department of Commerce reported that U.S. corporations will spend $4.48 billion on new plants and equipment in the third quarter of this year, a 3% gain over the similar 1949 period. Total expenditures for 1950 should hit a whopping $17 billion, barely 6% under the 1949 near-record total...
Said U.S. Industrialist Roger W Straus, a Jewish layman who was one of the original founders of the National Conference of Christians & Jews: "Statesmen ot the Western world must employ all their skill" to establish international good will. "But only spiritual force will gain them the heights of their aspiration because it is only the idealistic man who has the power to give life to progress...
...started, the selling ebbed. Orders to buy trickled, then flooded into the market-mainly for General Motors, which had announced its proposed two-for-one stock split the night before. G.M. took off on a climb from 89-5/8, its low for the day, to 91--a gain of more than 7 points (and far above its 1929 high of 91¾. The demand spread to other blue-chip stocks. By day's end the Dow-Jones industrials had regained all their losses and then some...