Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will build a new 1,776,000-sq.-ft. Fisher body plant in Mansfield, Ohio, convert a wartime tank factory near Flint, Mich, to body-parts stamping. Oldsmobile will expand its engine plant capacity 50%; Buick will boost annual capacity from 750,000 cars to 1,000,000 cars, while other G.M. divisions will install new machines, new tools, new automation processes...
...Africans are crowded into 52,000 sq. mi. of less desirable farmlands down below, or scrabble for their living in the arid, underdeveloped "Crown Lands" -a euphemism for wilderness. For many years the million-strong Kikuyu tribe, less uneducated than most and peacefully inclined, talked hopefully of expanding their holdings into the White Highlands; instead, the white settlers told them to go expand into the Crown Lands, and vaguely talked of irrigation projects that would some day make the Crown Lands bloom. Frustrated, many of the Kikuyu farmers turned to other occupations, including joining the Mau Mau and beheading whites...
Over the years, Reuther has struck all three of the Big Three, but never simultaneously. His slogan: "One at a time." This year's first objective: Ford. Reuther reasoned that Ford, running neck and neck with Chevrolet, eager to expand and preparing to make its stock available to the public this fall, would be likeliest to come to terms. Besides, strike benefits for Ford's 140,000 workers would cost less than for G.M.'s 325,000. The G.M. union contract was expiring May 29, but Reuther extended it until June 7, so that the Ford contract...
...major problem in marketing its new line : old people do not like to admit they are old, often shy away from special preparations for them. (Borden's Gerilac, a milk product for oldsters, flopped.) Heinz hopes to overcome consumer resistance by an educational advertising campaign, plans to expand into vegetables, fruits, custards...
SANTA FE RAILROAD, longest in the U.S. (TIME, May 23), will expand again. For $9,963,000 the Santa Fe bought 73,800 shares (82%) of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad from the estate of George P. McNear Jr., whose death by a shotgun blast during a 1947 strike is still unsolved. With the 239-mile T.P. & W., which bridges central Illinois and ties in with the Santa Fe tracks at Lomax, Ill., the Santa Fe can bypass crowded Chicago switchyards with transcontinental freight, save up to eight hours on New York deliveries...