Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much work remains to be done on matters connected with education in the College. In this report we have attempted to lay the foundations for a system which might remedy some the defects that have been found to exist in the College's instruction. Next year's Council could expand our plan and make it even more specific, both in its content an its organization. The tutorial system, which the Teachers' Union investigated from the point of view of administration and personnel, might well be considered from the student's point of view, with the objet of discovering what part...
...glue-jobbing for glue-making in 1897, resolved to make a million dollars in ten years. He chose Gowanda (near Buffalo) because it had a tanning industry, and animal glue is made chiefly from the fleshing of hides. He made his first million in seven years and began to expand. First he bought up the old Peter Cooper Corp., whose famed founder, a New York philanthropist (Cooper Union), was a glue pioneer. By 1930 he had bought competitors in Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Hammond, Ind., Springdale, Pa. and Brantford, Ont. He hated travel so much that he never spent...
Engines. United Aircraft Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney division agreed to expand its plant at East Hartford, Conn., take a $180,000,000 order for 17,000 airplane engines (500 to 2,000 h.p.), expects to begin turning them out (with Navy-owned tools) within eight months. Curtiss-Wright Corp. accepted a $323,000,000 order for 20,000 more engines, 14,000 propellers, will be in production nn the order by next July. -Said Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, announcing the Pratt & Whitney order: "These fellows, as good sportsmen, are willing to take a chance even before Congress...
...naval armor plate (Bethlehem, U. S. Steel, Baldwin Locomotive's subsidiary Midvale Co.) and the Navy's armor factory at Charleston, W. Va. Armor-plate capacity doubled in the past year, would have to be doubled again. Manufacturers of many a needed naval item declined to expand their plants-capacity unless & until they were assured of a fair taxation-amortization policy (see p. 72). All in all, U. S. citizens Could well wish for more speed. But after pondering what Robinson, Moreell & Co. were up against, they could hardly carp at less...
...grandiose Navy Office across the way, Japan's new Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, introduced himself to his staff one day last week. His was a critical audience-blunt Yoshizawa of the American Division, cross-eyed Spokesman Suma, dyspeptic middle-aged clerks and angry youngsters who think Japan should expand all the way to the Suez Canal-who had seen Foreign Ministers come & go like rainstorms. They expected thunder in this maiden speech...