Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soundproof and functional as modern engineering can make them, the building units are ordinarly divided into three sections: two fraternities with a dormitory section between them. The heavy metal partitions which separate the three are movable, allowing the fraternities to expand or contract according to their yearly membership without loss of money or space to the College...
...Spot. Curtice is a great believer in on-the-spot decisions when he has seen for himself what all the facts are. When he left for a quick tour of G.M.'s European plants six weeks ago, his plans were to spend $172 million expanding plants in England and Germany. But in Belgium, while touring G.M.'s assembly plant at Antwerp, Curtice was told that $6,000,000 was needed for more space and equipment. There had been no plan to expand in Belgium, but Curtice, in typical fashion, agreed to appropriate the money. The Swiss assembly plant...
Application by secondary school students to a number of colleges to insure admission to at least one, was pointed out as an administrative problem that will expand each succeeding year...
...vital problem of markets and surpluses has never been faced head on. Two wars had postponed the day of inevitable reckoning." The G.O.P. farm bill finally faced the problem. Said he: "We have a farm program geared not to war but to peace-a program that will encourage consumption, expand markets and realistically adjust farm production to markets...
...nation's industrial giants have been haled into court on antitrust charges that smacked of prosecution for bigness alone. The problem has been raised again by the roadblock against the Bethlehem-Youngstown steel merger (TIME, Oct. 11), although Bethlehem claimed that the merger would have permitted it to expand in the Midwest markets, thereby increasing competition. Thus, at issue is the old question: Can the size of a business be limited...