Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...POWER. Expand electric-power capacity from the present 3,000,000 kilowatts to 5,000,000 by 1960. This is the heart of the program, and will require some $300 million worth of imported equipment...
...Sent to Congress a message requesting a fiveyear, $250 million federal program to expand medical research and teaching facilities. Among the appropriations suggested: $22 million for heart disease research. His report pointed up the remarkable progress in health insurance (see MEDICINE...
...atomic-power capacity may soar to 135 million kw., 20% of the nation's total. The panel's forecast for atomic-power equipment sales from 1960-80: $27 billion. However, the overall U.S. demand for electric power will climb so fast that conventional power plants will also expand...
...leadership of their new Master and their Senior Tutor, the men at Kirkland House were experimenting. Early in the fall they began a tutorial program for science majors, designed to acquaint budding scientists with the philosophy of their subject. Latest reports have it that they are reading about expanding universes. Even Professorial families may expand to keep pace with the fashion; professors may soon be able to get special grants to educate their children--provided they have children. We agreed with Malthus in approving this kind of growth...
...City "get along pretty well," but he'd be happier if the College would ban students' cars. Eddie isn't too happy about expansion either. "Pretty soon there won't be any taxable property left in this city if Harvard keeps buying it up. If they want to expand, let them expand...