Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Early. Studebaker had almost weathered the crash when President Erskine made a fatal mistake. Recalled Hoffman: "Erskine figured that in 1931 the back of the Depression was broken, and that business would be on the upswing. So he started to expand in that year. Harold Vance went to Detroit to be president of our Rockne company and bring out the Rockne, which was our challenge to Ford. But Mr. Erskine was a year too early. He made the awful mistake of expanding in a dying market." Studebaker fell $21 million in debt, went into bankruptcy. President Erskine put a bullet...
G.I.s of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division had an apt nickname for the ROK outfit that relieved them in the line last month: "Van Fleet's Bootleg Division." Bootleg it was, for while Washington had dithered, trying to make up its mind to expand the South Korean army from ten to twelve divisions, doughty General James A. Van Fleet had quietly fleshed out about nine new ROK battalions by rounding up every Korean draftee he could lay his hands on. To blood his raw battalions, Van Fleet fed them one by one into front-line ROK divisions; meanwhile...
...only take over, better schools and lower taxes would result. Furthermore, the Dallas school board hinted that it might eventually be willing to annex Pleasant Grove. Then the Dallas board began running into trouble with its new $24 million bond issue. By Texas law, the Dallas district could not expand an inch until all its bonds were sold...
...handmaiden, she still feels her selling needs constant rejuvenating. She noticed that the woman customer frequently bought two jars of cream-one for her husband. So she began a line of men's cosmetics and toilet goods named after her husband. With her new plant, she plans to expand Gourielli production (which now includes some items for women), is certain that men cannot get along without such products as her brushless shaving cream. It contains "amazing active ozone [releasing] vital oxygen . . . beneficial to tender skin...
...prosperous lumber and real-estate business. In 1947, when relatives had a hard time agreeing among themselves on brewery affairs, Fred took on the full-time job of running the brewery as president. The stockholders agreed to spend $25 million out of profits and their own pockets to expand and modernize the brewery and go after a national market...