Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candy flavors earned $2,750,000 last year, agreed to merge with Beech-Nut Packing Co., third biggest U.S. chewing-gum maker (after Wrigley, American Chicle). The merger, still to be formally approved by directors and stockholders, was a logical move for both companies. Life Savers was eager to expand. Beech-Nut, which also makes baby food, coffee and peanut butter, had been unable to fatten its profit margin: only $3,747,000 last year, about 4% on $91,084,000 worth of sales, v. Life Savers' 13.5% net on a $20,382,000 gross. Said 73-year...
...College administrators--yesterday presented two different views on the problems which the University will face if it begins to expand...
Speaking in the symposium, "The College: Its Future Size and Shape," both John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, and John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, agreed that the College will expand. However, they differed in their conceptions of what expansion will involve...
Monro placed more emphasis on the idea that it is the University's duty and obligation to expand. "We owe the country no less," he said. He further pointed out that the University has become a great one only by "taking on one big problem after another with enthusiasm and success...
...mountain man had scoured the West before Frémont, no one had observed it so well, mapped it so accurately, measured so methodically the temperatures and elevations. It was the difference between men looking for skins and a man bent on showing that the U.S. could and should expand quickly and profitably to the Pacific...