Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan to expand the Council was defeated, 8 to 4, after parliamentary entanglement. Expansion was considered unnecessary because of the Council's power to appoint additional members...
Furthermore, as companies expand and float new securities, still more money is being drawn away from existing issues. For the first nine months of 1956, almost $6 billion worth of bonds were floated v. $5.2 billion for the same period last year. In addition, new stock issues in the first three weeks of September alone climbed to $169 million v. only $55 million in all of August. Thus, the September market slump was not so much an urge to sell as a reluctance to buy; the trading was the lowest September level in two years. Most of the selling...
Most Administration officials are concerned about how the College will manage to expand over the flats of Cowperthwaite Street and Brattle Square. One University professor, however--in a strictly amateur capacity--is working on a plan that would pick up Harvard like Lilliputia and put it down on a wooded hillside 50 miles from Cambridge...
Thus, should the Compagnie Universelle decide to liquidate, holders of its shares-900,000 in all-would receive $320 per share, or almost twice the current market price, plus whatever indemnity the company could get from Nasser. If, as is far more likely, the company should decide to expand its portfolio and stay in business, it could turn itself into one of Europe's largest investment trusts...
This year alone 22 companies will either build or expand plants along the waterway. Reynolds Metals is expanding; so is Alcoa, with a new $45 million aluminum plant at Point Comfort, Texas. Estimates are that the surging chemical and petrochemical industries will shoot up 70% by 1960, and the Gulf Coast will get much of the expansion. Texas alone will add $260 million worth of new plants in the next two years. Firestone Tire & Rubber is building a huge chemical plant at Orange, Texas; Dow Chemical is expanding its Freeport. Texas plant by $45 million, while Gulf Oil, Foster Wheeler...