Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goodman, present Council treasurer, failed to gain re-election; he trailed Skinner, who polled 160 votes, by 14 ballots. Five hundred fifty-nine juniors cast votes in the election...
Freshman sailors mauled Nichols Junior College, 105 1/4 to 68, in races on the Charles yesterday. Charles Hoppin took two firsts, a second, and a fourth to gain top individual honors in the dual regatta...
...Butler went the route to gain credit for the Dunster win, while George Hargreaves and Alt Jenkins each got two hits for the Bunnies...
...amount of new investment in Britain since 1945 is rather impressive . . . More important, this rebuilding of Britain's capital plant has been paying off in increased productivity . . . The government [productivity] figures give an average 5½% gain m 1949; other estimates show that the gain ranges from 2% in textiles to 15% in precision instruments and 21% in the automobile industry . . . The productivity figures . . . help explain the surprising remark of left-wing Socialist M.P. Dick Crossman."I thank heaven," Grossman said, "that the motor car industry is still under private enterprise...
...unlikely, since he has his constituents too. There must be a reorganization of the whole process of damming and dredging before the economy which Congress so cloquently embraces and so purposefully blocks will be possible. The first need is a system of "beneficiary repayments," under which the people who gain from water shifts will have to pay the cost. This is the system used by the Bureau of Reclamation, an executive agency, when it builds irrigation ditches for farmers. As the Hoover Commission has proposed, a Review and Coordination Board, independent of direct Congressional control, would determine who paid...