Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question boils down to three alternatives for the University," he explained. "We could increase admissions immediately--letting in a slightly lower caliber of students than we do at present, we could expand rapidly, or we could combine expansion with a gradual rise in admissions." He expressed preference for the third alternative...
...year or two, it looked as if he had speculated wrongly about the future of air travel, had dangerously overexpanded. A subsidiary, American Overseas, had started transatlantic flights and lost money with almost every planeload. Domestic air travel did not expand nearly so fast as Smith expected. In the first three postwar years, American piled up losses of $6.7 million...
...good gambler, Smith decided to cut his losses on American Overseas by selling it to Pan American for $10.7 million. In 1949 American broke through the dark clouds with net earnings of more than $7,000,000. Thus encouraged, C.R. took a squint into the future and decided to expand again. He placed the first order for 25 of Douglas' big, fast DC-7s, which he got for some $700,000 less than later buyers, used them to begin the first roundtrip, nonstop flights across the continent. American has been in the black ever since '49; despite...
...undergraduate acquires more assurance and experience, he is encouraged to expand his activities. Thus Frank R. Rossiter '59, now giving a series of weekly talks on British History to a Newton High School world history class, will later on in the term work with advanced students on certain topics in ancient history...
...schools, the University, and the officers. The HUT backers are looking for someone familiar with "school politics" who would act as liason between schools' needs and the academic and social obligations of undergraduates. If the HUT can find a student interested in this sort of work, they hope to expand to 30 students by next year. But even without a paid manager, the group continues to expand as undergraduates and teachers learn about it. Goldberg says it is possible for interested students to become HUT's up until the middle of the spring term...