Word: gainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After taking the second-half kickoff Dartmouth's first team marched 64 yards in 9 plays for a sixth score. O'Brien, Dartmouth's leading ground gainer of the day with 61 yards, took it in for the score from five yards out. This tire Wilson missed the kick...
...rest of the backfield, Captain John Barron at fullback, Bob Laughton, and Hal Riley, hasn't had the coaches turning somersaults with joy. In fact, Bucknell's leading ground gainer against Gettysburg was Don Cook, a defensive back who was only left in on offense until Odell could get him out under the new substitution rule...
...Chrysler's report in December that 16 of its high executives last year picked up thousands of options at $21 to $31 a share and sold some of them shortly after the minimum six-month holding period at a total pretax profit of $4,200,000. The biggest gainer: President Lynn Townsend, whose profit before capital gains' tax and brokerage fees...
...progressive; middle-of-the-road, up-and-coming, down-and-at-'em Republican-type Republican . . . The net result of this urge to be labeled frequently is that our party members end up in neatly tagged compartments, while the opposition party ends up in public office. The only real gainer is a peculiar political species known as a Democrat Democrat...
Along with the overall gain, the statistics contained some interesting sidelights. Biggest individual ad-volume gainer was Conde Nast's House & Garden, which climbed 47%, to $8,165,669. As usual, LIFE led the field in total revenue, with $140,565,848, comfortably ahead of Look's $76 million and the Saturday Evening Post's $66.5 million. The Reader's Digest, which began accepting ads in its domestic edition eight years ago, maintained its steady ad-revenue growth by registering a 25% increase...