Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion in 1958. ¶ Department-store sales as a measure of consumer confidence increased 8% from the comparable period in 1958. The full-month totals for January show a 6% increase over last year. Of twelve Federal Reserve Districts reporting, only one of them, Minneapolis, failed to gain. ¶ Freight carloadings rose 5.8% last week for the biggest year-to-year improvement since August...
Administration economists profess not to be worried. The real, noninflated gain in G.N.P. for 1953 was 4.4%. that for 1955 a fat 8%. What knocked the average off was a minus 1.9% in the 1954 recession and a minus 3.2% last year. Says one top-level Washington economist: "The boys who average these things out catch us at the low end of the cycle. If you judged 1959 and 1960 in overall terms, we would have nothing to worry about...
...election meeting marked by sharp and often bitter debate, Derek T. Winans '60 last night turned back the challenge of David Z. Farbman '60 to gain the presidency of the Young Democratic Club...
...this time a year ago, 23 Princeton sophomores--15 of them Jewish--failed to gain admission to undergraduate eating clubs, and set off a wave of rancorous controversy and unfavorable publicity that rocked the Princeton community for several months. Now, just a year later, Bicker, the election period for the eating clubs, has been completed as smoothly as anyone can remember. There has been no "cage" on the back porch of Ivy Club, no unhappy group of "one hundred percenters", no charges of religious discrimination...
...Armour & Co.'s pharmaceutical division into a regular customer by showing it how to reduce costs $100,000 annually by shipping drugs air freight to a five-state area. For many of the same reasons, Burroughs Corp. has started shipping computers by air and figured a $245.43 net gain on shipping a 1,640-lb. computer from Detroit to Los Angeles...