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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...account) to "Bar 20 Foreman" ($500). For all this, the bank paid Cassidy a set fee: 50? per new account plus $1 for the thrift kit. In four days the Citizens' National, Georgia's largest bank, reported more than 1,000 new savings accounts, prepared to expand the club to its 14 branches in other cities. Elsewhere in the U.S., some 200 other banks had started the savings clubs, turning some 196,000 little shavers into savers...
...needs for the long pull into a ten-point legislative program: new military appropriations; extension and revision of the Selective Service Act; more foreign military and economic aid; "a major increase in taxes"; the means for increasing the number of doctors and nurses; new executive authority to expand production and to stabilize prices, wages and rents...
Said President Harold W. Dodds: at a cost to Princeton of about $1,500,000, the university is taking over the 800-acre nearby property of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (which has moved out) to expand its work in "helicopter research, flight control, supersonics and rocket development, chemical kinetics, metallurgy and other sciences." Name of the university's newest division (in honor of the first Secretary of Defense, a Princeton man of the class of '15): the James Forrestal Research Center...
...electric power, the $8.6 billion poured out to expand since 1945 had increased capacity...
...into defense production. There was no argument, as there had been in the early days of World War II, over the need for further industrial expansion. At year's end businessmen, who had spent $83 billion on expansion in five years (including $18 billion in 1950), planned to expand even faster in 1951 by spending $5 billion in the first quarter alone...