Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln-Mercury division reported that in one ten-day period of February its dealers sold 8,806 Mercurys, well above any similar period in the division's history. Chrysler sales were running upwards of 70% over last year. To keep up with the increasing demand, Chrysler will expand further. President Lester Lum (Tex) Colbert announced that Chrysler will build an 800,000-sq. ft. automatic-transmission plant in Kokomo, Ind., have it in operation for 1956 models...
Applications for the School will probably rise steadily each year, he said, as "the war and post-war tide of babies reaches our level." But this does not mean, he added, that the School should expand "to meet the needs of our rising population...
...accommodate a possible jump of 300 over its present student body of 900; Iowa's Coe College, which has 750 students, hopes to have room for 1,000; and Union, in Schenectady, N.Y., may go from 950 to 1,200. The state universities may be forced to expand beyond either their expectations or desires. By 1970, says President Logan Wilson, the University of Texas may have grown from 16,000 students to 30,000-and that might be more than the university can properly handle...
...None. For all these plans and predictions, however, one group of administrators-the presidents of private liberal arts colleges and universities-remain in sharp disagreement over the future. How, much can they expand their campuses without diluting the quality and nature of their education? At one extreme, President Charles Turck of St. Paul's Macalester College feels that the private institution might well plan to grow indefinitely-even if it must rely on Government grants as do the British universities. "Does anyone believe," he asks, "that the public institution men who know that their tax appropriations depend on their...
...approach to expansion must first be made on the graduate school level, he pointed out. "We depend upon the graduate school to handle our tutorial and sections. If the College is to expand, then our programs in the Graduate school must also expand. And yet we cannot increase the size of that program without seriously diluting its present quality...