Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expected to be slightly smaller than last year's organization, the band will direct its attentions this season to turning out better music and to more precise marching. In addition to patriotic services that are especially needed in war time, it expects to expand its former function which consisted mainly of playing at football games and athletic rallies...
...backlog of war orders, its 1,300 highly skilled employes, its nifty earnings record. First thing C.I.T. did with its new baby was to jump everyone's wages 10%, assure all officers they would keep their jobs. C.I.T. intends to keep Holtzer-Cabot as a "permanent investment," will expand operations if things go right...
...airline service, international politics and sinister trans-ocean intrigue. Yet that was the shape of things last week. And in many a South American city and town there were signs that: 1) although the U.S. did a good turn in ousting Axis airlines, it has since been unable to expand service fast enough to meet total demand; 2) the U.S. has not done enough to stop its citizens from hogging airline seats; 3) the U.S. has been frightfully tough about selling South Americans new planes and spare parts...
...this flying the Army has promised to "lend-lease" new cargo planes to the airlines as fast as they come off production lines-a minimum of 300 by Christmas. Said General George: "The only limit is [the airlines'] ability to expand." Biggest immediate addition will be scores of sturdy, twin-engined Douglas DC-35, now rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge...
...expand their tightened arteries when an attack starts, victims of angina carry with them tiny pills (containing from 0.0003 to 0.0006 of a gram) of nitroglycerin. These work in a flash, but their effect does not last long...