Word: abreast
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...lost on many of his successors. Almost alone among big utilities, Detroit Edison Co. still gives away light bulbs. Partly because of this and similar consumer service policies, Detroit Edison, already the sixth biggest U.S. power company,* is growing so fast that it can scarcely keep abreast of demand. Last week, by the ice-clogged waters of the St. Clair River, it was rearing the structural steel for a new $95 million power plant, and was already blueprinting another one, equally big, named the River Rouge. Both are part of a four-year, $237 million expansion program which...
...hauled the gun carriage that bore the King's coffin. Behind them, in the bright red and gilt state coach, rode the bereaved women, dim, veiled, scarcely visible: Britain's young Queen, her mother, her sister Margaret and her aunt, the Princess Royal. Behind them, walking four abreast, came the Royal Dukes: Edinburgh, the Queen's husband; Gloucester, the King's younger brother; Windsor, who had once been King himself; and Kent, his 16-year-old nephew...
...slow procession passed Marlborough House, where all the blinds were drawn save one. In that window sat Queen Mary. When at last the gun carriage drew abreast, she stood, making a sudden, quick gesture of farewell to her dead son. The black-clad ladies in the coach bowed; the three elder Dukes saluted...
...keep abreast of the soaring U.S. birth rate, Wood took a cool and calculated gamble six years ago. While other merchandisers pulled in their horns in fear of the "inevitable" postwar recession, Wood launched the greatest expansion in merchandising history. He blueprinted the spending of $300 million out of earnings to open 92 new Sears stores in the U.S. and Latin America, and enlarged and shifted the locations of 212 more. If the recession had come, Sears would have been in deep trouble. But Wood's faith in the expanding American economy-aided by the backlog of demand...
...longer adequate for today's high-speed cars, and many fell into disrepair during the war years; an estimated $40 billion is needed to modernize them alone. The oil industry believes it will have to spend $11.2 billion in a decade, expand by one-third merely to keep abreast of rising demand. The U.S. will need at least 6,000,000 new homes by 1960, merely to house the increased population, and the estimates of all home-building and repairs needed run as high as $10 billion a year...