Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long. Corrigan is now completing a 695-room addition to his Adolphus Hotel in Dallas which will make it the biggest (1,500 rooms) completely air-conditioned hotel in the world. Says Corrigan, who is dickering for several more hotels and shopping centers: "I've got to expand or I'm not happy...
...gamble was that U.S. business could expand fast enough to 1) produce the armaments needed for possible war, and 2) furnish the U.S. people with all-or almost all - the civilian goods they wanted...
...clothes that anybody wants. The pinch should ease after the first six months. The supply of steel will be tightest in the first quarter. After that, expanding capacity (scheduled to hit 118 million tons in 1952 and 120 million tons in 1953) should make more civilian steel available. The total output of goods & services will expand to an estimated $356 billion at the end of 1952. But with rising incomes there will be more money available than goods & services to spend it on, i.e., an "inflationary gap" of about $12 billion. Last year's high saving was abnormal...
...years old. The roads themselves are no 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...
...years ago to take over the Lapeer Methodist Protestant Church. He was what the townspeople called a "visiting preacher"; he never forgot the people who lived too far away or were too sick to come to church regularly. When radio came along in the '205, he determined to expand his job at the Methodist church into a mission of the air. He tried to interest nearby cities such as Flint and Saginaw in setting up a broadcasting station strictly for religious programs, but he got no backing. Frank Hemingway set to work in Lapeer to launch...