Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unbeaten varsity swimming team edge previously undefeated Navy, 47 to 39, at the I.A.B. Saturday. With the home team leading by a lone point, the relay team of Koni Ulbrich, brothers Dave and Dick Seaton, and Bruce Hunter won the deciding race, the 400-yard freestyle relay, to gain seven points and secure the victory...
...Department-store sales across the nation climbed 5% in January's third week, chalking up the third straight week of gain over 1958 levels...
...Freight carloadings climbed 2.3% above 1958 levels, for the most significant gain in 17 months. Railmen expect the upsurge to continue...
Nevertheless, compared to the youthful hotheads of Togoland's vociferous Juvento Party, Olympic had turned out to be a moderate. The Juvento demand ouster of the French and union with Ghana. It was strange, of course, that the Ghanaians, who had so much to gain from Togoland's Juvento and so much to lose with Olympio, should be the very ones to warn of a Juvento plot against him. But the French apparently did not take time to think about that...
...happy blend of year-end confidence and year-opening optimism brought a new high for the stock market last week. When the closing gong ended trading on Dec. 31. the Dow-Jones industrial average stood at an alltime record of 583.65. The year's gain in dollar value of the more than 5 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange was the largest in the Big Board's 166-year history, rising to about $275 billion from $196 billion at the end of 1957. Stock Exchange transactions totaled 747,058,306, the largest volume since...