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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which bears almost no resemblance to the flower-decked Arabian Nights pleasure dome that the Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809) shared so opulently with 2,000,000 subjects, is getting low-cost housing, a sewage system, some badly needed modern streets, and the promise of room to expand now that the Tigris can be curbed...
Paper mills in Canada, which make more than half the world's newsprint, and in the U.S. planned to expand. But no boost in output is possible until late 1956. Meantime, the shortage will grow worse: five major newsprint producers notified customers of imminent cutbacks in allotments of from...
...total of jobless was growing, along with uncertainty about the future. In this critical period, "Red" Curtice stood up before 500 of the nation's top businessmen and industrialists and gave his own pronouncement on the future. General Motors, he said, would spend $1 billion to expand its plants for the increase in auto sales to come. Screamed the headlines: G.M. BETS BILLION: NO SLUMP...
...predicted General Electric's Ralph Cordiner last week, the growth of the U.S. economy will be hampered, not by any lack of markets, but by shortages of raw materials. To help fill the expected demand for his own products, Cordiner announced that G.E. will spend $500 million to expand in the next three years...
...recognized and obeyed only two superiors-God Almighty and Brigham Young. If these two seemed to differ, then Lee went along with Young as the man who knew more than God about Utah and politics. So when the Mormons decided to press southward to establish new cities and expand the Kingdom of the Saints, Young made Lee one of the principal leaders of the expedition. And Lee knew exactly what his duty was. He was to be fruitful and multiply, so that the hosts of Mormon might cover the face of the earth. Helped (according to the best estimates...