Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Power to Spare. So is pro football. Already solidly in the black (projected profits this season for San Francisco: $500,000), the N.F.L. is eying the growing national interest in the game (CBS's pro-football TV audience: some 20 million) and planning to expand to Minneapolis-St. Paul and Dallas next year. What is more, the newly formed American Football League, headed by Dallas Oilman Lamar Hunt, has high hopes of playing next year in Houston, Dallas, New York, Denver, Boston, Buffalo and Los Angeles. Says Hunt: "Unless the N.F.L. folds, there will be two professional football leagues...
Another problem arises from the difficulty of expansion. To be economically viable and to serve metropolitan Boston effectively, the MTA should construct new lines, perhaps utilizing railroad rights of way. The Authority did expand successfully over the tracks of a former narrow gauge railroad to East Boston and Revere, thus starting subway service to an expanding part of the city. A second major attempt at expansion has not succeeded, however. For $10.6 million, the MTA purchased and renovated completely a branch of the New York Central Railroad, and within two days after service started, the new line carried four times...
...Last week the two nations finally got together over the division of the waters of the Nile. Nasser had urgent reasons for settling the long dispute: this month Soviet engineers arrive to start work on the first stage of the huge Aswan High Dam project-a scheme designed to expand Egypt's farmland by 30% and multiply its electric power eightfold. Since the Nile travels 1,900 miles through the Sudan before reaching Egypt, the Sudanese were strategically placed to cut off Nasser's water if they chose...
...Hopes to Expand...
...movement has the support of 16 chapters and hopes to incorporate ten more by the end of this month. The Harvard chapter originated last spring after a College-wide poll showed Rockefeller to be preferred over Nixon. Chapman decided to expand the movement to national proportions after talking to George Wahr Sallade, national chairman of Citizens for Rockefeller...