Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Education goes before the Faculty this afternoon with a proposal which would remake the entire distribution setup of the College. After two and a half years of experimental operation, the GE program has been carefully sifted by the Committee; the proposals, cautions and flexible, would not only expand the successful courses offered in the program but also broaden the whole base of the concentration-distribution system to the point where it too will serve as general education in its own right...
Menzel, who plans to expand the whole Climax set-up, has written several the-ories on the cause of the aurora and magnetic storms. This summer he proved that a ring nebula--a ring of bright gas surrounding a star--was actually composed of huge comets...
Last week Parton thought his experiment had worked well enough to expand further. For less than $500,000, he bought the biggest U.S. giveaway-Los Angeles' twice-a-week Down Town Shopping News† (circ. 500,000). The Shopping News was owned by 18 Los Angeles department stores (The Broadway, Bullock's, May Co., Barker Bros.). Parton promised to jump circulation to 600,000 and lower ad rates; as part of the deal, the stores signed long-time advertising contracts with Parton. His expected revenue this year: more than...
President Truman, who thinks the U.S. steel industry has not expanded fast enough to meet the nation's needs, last week gave it a sharp prod. In his "State of the Union" message (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he asked Congress for an "immediate study" to find out if existing steel capacity is adequate. If it is not, said the President, then the Government should lend industry the money to expand or, if steelmen balk at that, put up the plants itself...
...industries could point with such pride. There was still a shortage of electricity in the Midwest and along the Pacific Coast, though utility men had worked frantically to expand. They spent $2.3 billion and hoped to spend another $3.3 billion to expand in the next five years. Despite the hopeful speeches of many a steelman that supply would soon meet demand, the great steel shortage was almost as bad at year's end as at the year's start...