Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENERAL DYNAMICS, eager to expand its civilian business, is well along in merger talks with Chicago's Material Service Corp., big (1957 sales: $103 million) producer of building supplies and coal...
...doubled in value over ten years ago. Not only that, but many farmers are buying more and more land on which to farm. One result: average farm real estate value per acre rose from $100.39 m March to $104.80 on Nov. 1, reflecting the drive by farmers to expand their acreage base in order to take advantage of present prices and farm price supports...
...tripled in the last ten years to 4,000,000, the number of shares listed has increased only 2½ times, to 4.9 billion. This year the situation has worsened; with industry operating below capacity in the recession, it had little need to go out after additional capital to expand. Result: the New York Stock Exchange added only 112 million new shares for the first nine months this year, compared to 271 million added in the same period last year and 544 million...
Filling the Chinks. Unlike Detroit's designers, who change styles each year, Europe's small-car men hardly touched their existing models this year. Instead, they concentrated on bringing out a fleet of brand-new cars to fill in the gaps in their lines and expand their growing markets still more. Italy's Fiat brought out an 81-h.p. hardtop two-seater to compete in the $3,200 price class with Britain's popular Austin Healeys, added a new baby line called the "Jolly," with four wicker seats and a price tag of about...
Other speakers at the discussion, sponsored by the Cambridge Civic Association, cited the need for a comprehensive professional study of Cambridge's traffic problems. The heavy pressure of commuter traffic through the city could eventually make Cambridge a "paved wilderness," unless coordinated action is taken to expand highway and mass transportation facilities...