Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, things looked up sharply. President Prescott landed his first big contract - a $200,000-a-year deal with California Flower Shippers to fly flowers from California to Chicago at $1,440 a planeload. Said Prescott: Skyways should now be able to expand in a more dignified fashion...
Answering Dean Hanford's reply to its protest statement, the Undergraduate Organizational Committee on the General Education Report decided last night to expand its program and issued the following statement...
...later issue, I shall expand upon the above paragraph and the rather carelessly worded arguments of the previous article...
National Interest. The Navy wants St. John's 32 acres, across Annapolis' King George Street, for a dormitory to house 5,000 midshipmen. Said a Navy spokesman: "St. John's property is urgently required in the national interest." St. John's suggested that Annapolis could expand just as well by crossing College Creek on its north, leaving St. John's alone. The president of the American Institute of Architects gave supporting testimony. But Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, the Academy's superintendent, does not want his men to have to march too far between classes...
...this feat, Lockheed's Bob Gross has to share the credit with Jack Frye and Howard Hughes, the thin-faced, lanky flyer, tool maker, brewer, financier and movie maker, who owns the controlling interest in TWA. Six years ago, Hughes and Frye decided that TWA should expand its routes around the world. For this, they needed a new plane. So they drew up specifications for the Constellation, gave Lockheed the job of designing and building...