Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coordinator: A guy who has a desk between two expediters. Modification Policy: A complete reversal which nobody admits. A Survey Is Being Made of This: We need more time to think of an answer. Note and Initial: Let's spread the responsibility for this. Point Up the Issue: Expand one page to 15 pages. Referred for Appropriate Action: Maybe your office will know what to do with this...
With the necessary equipment, a place to put it, faculty support, and a renewed license, the club began to expand. From five, its membership grew to 34, with more joining almost every week...
...College life in just about every sense of the word--here for the students of seven score years ago were gathered his library, his dining hall, his social center, his museum, his laboratory, his chapel, and his lecture room. But the passage of time has seen the College expand by leaps and bounds, and gradually all but the very last of these functions has been shifted to newer and larger structures...
...aircraft, the helicopter. In 1940, Igor Sikorsky made the first helicopter flight in the U.S., and opened up another field of air transport. But soon, the helicopter, and most other experimental projects at United, were swept into the background. World War II came and the big job was to expand production of United's engines, propellers and Corsair fighters...
...Goal. But the Government's goal is not all-out production. It is not primarily to build engines, but to expand capacity to build. The goal by 1953 is a national productive capacity of 50,000 planes and 216,000 jet engines a year. Thus, instead of concentrating on total production in fewer plants, the manufacturers must spread their skilled forces thin to bring the larger number of plants into limited production. They must have huge new research and development facilities to perfect their knowledge of the infant science of jets (United alone has spent $12 million...