Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is Birmingham; for two months it may be Havana or San Juan; the rest of the time it is Chicago, where Spies heads Northwestern University's department of nutrition and metabolism. Since his school days, pellagra has been almost completely banished from the U.S. And, for this gain in health, his boyhood neighbors have nobody to thank more than Tom Spies...
...year graduate students, who have the greatest contact with the undergraduate, and who are at the same time subject to the greatest academic-scholastic pressures. When their promotions are considered, their teaching record is considered, but it hardly the determining factor. They realize that the good scholar will probably gain the instructorship, rather than the very good teacher...
Stott found that 55% of the retarded children had been ailing from birth, usually failing to gain weight, or losing weight, during the first few weeks. This was double the rate among their brothers and sisters (not retarded), three times the rate among unrelated comparison groups...
...costs, forced borax prices down over the years from about $4,000 to $38.50 a ton. The younger Gerstley came to the U.S., took over the Pacific Coast Borax division, became a U.S. citizen. In 1956 Borax (Holdings) Ltd. decided to make Pacific Coast Borax a U.S. company to gain the advantages of U.S. businesses, e.g.,, depletion allowances, defense contracts. They formed Consolidated Borax, Inc., which engineered last year's merger, owns 74¼% of U.S. Borax & Chemical Corp...
...especially young girl workers, who leaned heavily on soda-and-cruller lunches-have almost disappeared. Chicago's Encyclopaedia Britannica reported that the output of its office force has increased 300% in the past five years, with only a 60% increase in employees, attributes a good part of the gain to its cafeteria program. Other corporations find that a company dining room helps executives keep abreast of what is going on in other departments, also brings workers closer to the company...