Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers. By pepping up the writing and broadening the news coverage, he turned the W.S.J. into one of the most readable of U.S. newspapers. As a result, Kilgore in 1945 moved up to the presidency of Dow Jones & Co., Inc., owner of the paper, and worked to expand W.S.J. into a national newspaper for businessmen. This week, with thriving editions in Dallas and San Francisco as well as Manhattan, 42-year-old Barney Kilgore moved into the Midwest. Dow Jones bought the Chicago Journal of Commerce (circ. 33,960) from Bernard J. Ridder (who also publishes the New York Journal...
...good deal of the credit for all this bustle belonged to Atlanta's new librarian. Two years ago, when Atlantans voted 1,700,000 to expand their 48-year-old Carnegie Library and its string of branches, the city gave the top job to fast-moving, chain-smoking John Carl Settlemayer, 38, onetime director of the Lincoln, Neb. library...
...ability to grow and expand along with a constantly growing nation was the real measure of its strength. If it grows in 1951 only as fast as in 1950, the gross national product will reach an estimated $310 billion. By stepping up the work week from 41 to 48 hours, the nation could get a windfall of 1,000,000 more workers, thus produce more goods than in 1950. If the production target was set high enough, American productive genius would do the rest. A summation of that genius had been well stated a quarter-century ago by a rising...
...next three years at 16½? a lb., 1? below the U.S. domestic price. But U.S. producers protested so loudly that NSRB Boss Stuart Symington turned down the deal. U.S. producers declared that they could supply all the aluminum the Government needs, if given time and money to expand. Meanwhile, NPA has ordered a 35% cut for civilian use of aluminum by March...
...girls are being trained for "State Service" under socialism. The Misses Edge and Baker, who run the school, are plain and loveless. Since their authority and comfort are all they have, and all that life and their government are apt to allot them, they spend their time trying to expand the first and deepen the second. They tipple sherry and sneak smokes, their word is law, and all seems for the best in the best of possible worlds. Nonetheless, they have their trials. For one thing, two of the girls have slipped out of the dormitory and disappeared into...