Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rooms at Dunster are relatively small, which will require exclusive use of double bunks in order to increase the present 240 men to 350. Kirkland will expand from 250 to about 375; while Eliot, which will be returned to the University from the Naval ROTC next fall, will accommodate 450 instead of its customary...
Life in The Netherlands a year after V-E day is not easy. People are shabbily dressed, but plans to revive and expand the textile industry are moving forward. People have almost enough to eat (1,900 calories a day) but many of the precious Dutch delicacies are missing; almost all the cheese is being exported to get foreign exchange. Food is still too scarce to make up for the starvation years. In the last agonizing months under the Nazis, Dutchmen ate only 400 calories a day; they are still unwontedly thin and pale...
...more important that the Dutch concentrate on getting back their prewar share of the world's ocean trade, because that would bring foreign exchange to buy raw materials to reconstruct, expand. The U.S. loan negotiations had gone smoothly -$200,000,000, half of it from Washington, half from private U.S. banks. The interest rate, 2¼%, expressed U.S. confidence in The Netherlands' future...
...Army has 25 V2s ready for assembly at White Sands and plans to launch them on a schedule of one a week. They should gradually push to higher altitudes -ordnance men have their sights on 120 miles-and rapidly expand man's knowledge of his world...
...Federal Government's famed Regulation W, stringent new rules on credit terms. Spiegel's, its sales suddenly cut in half, was almost trampled to death by the cash-dealing giants, lost $2.4 million in 1943. Modie Spiegel decided that the best way to survive was to expand into direct retailing. He began concocting his new prescription. Its name: "The Five Store Plan...