Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stocks: Stocks turned weak without a new high for the rails which would have "confirmed" the industrials' last peak (TIME, June 5). The market, unresponsive to Hopkins' optimism and the steel rate, last week lost nearly a third of its gain from 1939's April...
Timed to counteract this impression in London and Paris while pact bargaining hangs fire, its first complete census figures since 1926 were published by the Soviet Government last week. They showed a population for the whole Soviet Union of 170,467,186 (a gain of 23,500,000 since were counted in 1926). Exulted Pravda: The percent of population growth not surpassed by any other country. Its estimates: U. S. 11%; Italy 9%; Germany 7%; Britain 5%; France 2.7%. Exulted Chief of the Central Statistical Administration of the National Economy Sautin: "A continuous growth of population...
...beginning of the 19th Century her army consisted of an untrained rabble which, theoretically, should have been easy meat for the professional armies of surrounding nations. But the brains of Napoleon soon fused this rabble into a fine French army and, what is more, employed it to gain the greatest French victories since the 18th-Century days of Marshal Saxe...
...Deal, however, decide to fight Recession II by priming heavy industry instead of consumer purchasing power, it is likely to choose railroad equipment (either forming a corporation to rent equipment to tho roads or guaranteeing loans enabling them to buy it) as one of the surest, quickest ways to gain its end. The figure New Dealers like to quote as a "minimum" of new locomotives needed to modernize the U. S. rolling power plant is 500 new engines a year; at this rate, barely a dent would be made in U. S. locomotive obsolescence. Assuming that Baldwin got what...
Jonathan Edwards' tennis team will come here to meet the Puritans, who last week cinched their inter-House crown by beating the Adams team. The Spiders have gone through their entire season undefeated to gain the Yale Inter-House championship...