Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...were agreed that the next Pope must be capable of vigorous action, a doer as well as a thinker, an executive as well as a mystic. The influence of the Church over the earth must be extended, its sway reestablished. The time. 1922, was propitious for both. Religions gain when peoples are spiritually disorganized and muddled, as they were just after the War and still...
...early days of the Soviet regime the mortality among women undergoing in the State hospitals what would be in other countries "illegal operations" averaged 32%. Thirteen years of practice, according to Miss von Wiegand, has reduced this figure to 16%, "a 50% gain in the humane direction since the revolution...
Investments of life insurance companies will be $18,900,000,000 at the end of the year, said Walton Lee Crocker, president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Boston. This will be a gain of $1,418,000,000 over last year, a 100% gain over 1923. Real estate mortgage investments amount to 40.3% of the total; stocks & bonds to 37.6%, foreign and U. S. government and municipal bonds to 7%.-Railroad securities will constitute 17% of holdings, against 35% in 1906. Public utility holdings will be up 16.2% for this year, against a gain of 9.4% last...
...Hartford said $108,500,000, 000 life insurance will be in force at the end of the year?first twelve-digit figure of U. S. finance. Of this, $18,500,000,000 will be the 1930 new business. This year $2.200.000,000 is being paid out, a gain of $238,000,000 over 1929. Of every 100 lives in the U. S., 54 are insured...
...purpose of the new school is to make the ocean give up more of the mysteries of life, depth, and geography, mysteries that it has held for centuries. The accomplishments they hope to gain are fourfold...