Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council's German Exchange Committee here, however, plans to continue and expand the program next year. It has already been promised complete remission of tuition for the six students. A spokesman for the Committee, Kirby von Kessler '54 said yesterday that the group will solicit funds from private corporations for next year...
...Expand French forces and beef up the Vietnamese army (if possible with small additions from Laos and Cambodia) to an overall total of 500,000 men. This number will enable the French Union to contest the control of every village and clearing against the Viet Minh, also release the mobile French Union forces for massive attacks on major Red bases, concentrations and supply lines...
...Will to Grow. The company's biggest growth has come during the 20 years since Yorkshire-born David Brown, grandson of the founder, succeeded his father in the family business. Fresh from an American tour and full of Yankee ideas of expansion, Brown wanted to expand the company, then Britain's biggest gear maker, into other products...
Dottie bakes her cookies in four flavors (almond butter, chocolate pecan, butterscotch nut, oatmeal pecan), but the special ingredients that keep her dough fresh-frozen, she says, "really are my secret." To expand distribution (now in Chicago, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming) and promote new products (e.g., shortcake), her major stockholders last week voted to reorganize as a $300,000 corporation, exchanging for five shares of the old $2 stock 12½ shares of new $1 stock. Says Baker Ferguson, who expects to gross $60,000 this year: "We had the most interesting little business when we started...
Decided: 1) to oppose U.N. membership for Communist China "under present circumstances"; 2) to keep ANZUS as it is, in spite of the desires of Britain and some of the non-Communist Pacific countries to join in, and expand it into a general Pacific defense alliance...