Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School of Arts and Sciences, cited figures which indicated that by 1970 the number of college students would increase from 2.7 million to 6.4 million. Although he felt the University should take steps to meet this educational problem, he proposed that Harvard turn out more Ph.D.'s rather than expand the undergraduate college...
...biggest vote of confidence came from U.S. businessmen themselves. In what he called "the best economic news of the year," Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks announced that U.S. business will spend a record $35 billion to expand plants and production in 1956, or 22% more than igss's previous high of $28.7 billion...
...devices, e.g., a wrist radio, a hearing aid so tiny that it fits inside an eyeglass frame. In a jet fighter the use of transistors cuts 1,500 Ibs. from the plane's weight. Last week the mighty mite had the electrical industry racing madly to expand transistor production: Motorola is putting up a $1,500,000 plant in Phoenix; Westinghouse is building in Youngwood, Pa. and Sprague Electric in Concord, N.H. ; Philco bought a 100,000-sq.-ft. factory in Spring City, Pa., RCA is moving into a 120,000-sq.-ft. factory at Bridgewater, N.J.; Texas Instruments...
...result, North American and other planemakers currently lease much of their expanded plant space from the U.S. Government, use it on a rent-free basis. They have been criticized by the Hebert committee for this. But planemakers have never had enough money to expand as fast as the Pentagon wants during an emergency, would go broke trying to build the plants themselves. Furthermore, military contracts are precarious; cancellations can make a huge, expensive plant useless to a manufacturer...
...Since college should be a place where a student can read, grow, and expand," Leach continued, "and is the beginning and not the end of education," a program in defense work could provide a trained group of people who could go into the Defense Department as a career...