Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean war with 1,567,661 tons of new shipping on order or on the ways. The Suez crisis, plus the trend to the null supertankers, flooded U.S. yards with orders -even if no one was sure when the steel would arrive. In 1956 steelmen spent $1.2 billion to expand. At year's end they planned to spend $2 billion more if the Government would allow them fast tax write-offs on the new plants...
...satellite is a balloon of Mylar plastic .0025 in. thick covered with an aluminum film .0006 in. thick. When released from the third-stage rocket, it will weigh 10½ oz. complete and look like a wad of aluminum foil. A small capsule of compressed dry nitrogen will expand the plastic to a sphere 20 in. in diameter, which will follow at first the same orbit as the hardshelled satellite. Gradually the two will separate. The sub-satellite will have more drag per unit of weight, and so will slow down more quickly. The speed with which it falls behind...
...businessmen: "What is at stake in the world today is the free-enterprise system. The Soviets realize that if this system can prevail, their system is doomed to failure." To meet Communist competition, said World Bank President Eugene R. Black, U.S. business must use "energy and imagination," to expand into the underdeveloped areas of the world...
...also happened with The Waste Land (433 lines) and its famed notes (217 lines). In the Sewanee Review, Eliot reveals: "When it came to print The Waste Land as a little book ... it was discovered that the poem was inconveniently short, so I set to work to expand the notes, in order to provide a few more pages of printed matter . . . They became the remarkable exposition of bogus scholarship that is still on view today. I have sometimes thought of getting rid of these notes; but ... they have had almost greater popularity than the poem itself ... I regret having sent...
...deny the trend, but many of its leaders argue that container mergers are a matter of simple survival. With plastics, foils and other new materials fast moving into the container field and taking over areas once dominated by the tin can and the glass jar, the oldtime companies must expand or be left behind. The company that sticks with one type of container could be stuck...