Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep up with the post-World War II demand for new cars. Ford Motor Co. has spent $1.7 billion to expand and modernize plants and equipment. Last week, in a speech before the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association&* at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel. President Henry Ford II admitted that even those husky figures had not been enough. Said he: "The booming market for both new and used cars has frankly been something of a surprise, even to us." To keep up with the expanding market, said he. Ford will spend an additional $625 million...
Although Pusey again seemed to indicate that Harvard would in the future have to expand to meet the rising number of applicants, he nevertheless, added that the private universities must "work for quality in an increasingly difficult situation...
...study of continental unification. A Flemish Franciscan, Anton K. Verleye, seconded the motion, moved that the school be located in Bruges ("There is a European spirit in the very stones of this city"). In 1949 an experimental, three-week course began; in 1950 its founders decided to expand the school, picked Dutchman Hendrik Brugmans, professor of French literature at the State University at Utrecht, to be its head. Last week, having just received the first fruits of his recent U.S. tour in the form of a $10,000 donation from the Ford Foundation, Rector Brugmans had reason to feel that...
...bill, sponsored by Senators J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) and John J. Sparkman (D-Ark.), would expand and liberalize the existing college housing program, authorized...
...Ford grant not only gave $500,000 for construction but an additional $1,500,000 to endow two professorships and expand research in international studies...