Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more cogent argument for peaceful coexistence is that most readers' thirst for the printed word is only whetted by TV. It is likely that TV was a big factor in newspapers' gain of 1,000,000 circulation (to a record 57 million) last year. Los Angeles Times Editor L. D. Hotchkiss even credits his paper's saturation coverage of TV with helping to cure the summer circulation slump that has long plagued dailies. Madison Avenue also seems to have heeded publishers' arguments that newspaper ads command greater attention than TV commercials. While...
FRED LAZARUS JR.. chairman, Federated Department Stores, Inc.: "This fall probably will show a gain in department-store sales of 2% to 3% over a good second half...
These subjects are treated with by members themselves during the summer session, with a view toward giving leaders from Asia and Europe an opportunity to gain insight into this country, according to Seminar officials...
...Hells Canyon dams (TIME, April 15). Senator Estes Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee is investigating to find out why trading in Idaho Power jumped from 800 shares to 4,300 shares on April 17, the day ODM acted, though no public announcement was made until April 25. Maximum gain for those who bought early: about $3.50 per share...
...ruling "disregards the language and purpose of the statute, 40 years of administrative practice and of the precedents . . . except one District Court decision. To make its case, the court requires no showing of any misuse of a stock interest-either at the time of acquisition or subsequently-to gain preferential treatment. All that is required, if this case is to be our guide, is that some court in some future year be persuaded that a 'reasonable probability' then exists that an advantage over competitors in a narrowly construed market may be obtained as a result of a stock...