Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school teachers from Vermont's Sugarbush, got Panagra airline (50% Grace-owned) to set a ski-excursion round-trip fare of $420 (regular rate: $678) from Miami, and arranged an inexpensive ($2.50 a day) equipment-rental service in Santiago. Throwing up partitions at Portillo, he figures to expand capacity to 500, with $150,000 worth of ski lifts to haul them all. Even before remodeling and expansion, news of the new Portillo passed around so fast that Navarrete found himself with a season-long full house-plus an overflow that helped flood ski towns all along the Andes...
...forum in the shape of a magazine with a softly assertive title: It Is Editor and Publisher: Philip G. Pavia, a Greenwich Village sculptor blessed with a private income, who loads his $2 magazine with full-page reproductions, offers ample space to the artists to explain, defend and expand on their own efforts. After three issues and yards of prose. It Is seems to have proved that the painters are at least as confused about their work as the public is. Sample quotes...
...wound up starting his own small business (Homesmith Inc.-home repairs) in Palo Alto, Calif. "It was a reaction to the Organization Man idea," he says. So far, at least 30 others have taken small-business jobs, and Harvard officials, sensing a trend, are preparing to help new classes expand their own job-hunting programs...
...interest-rate ceiling on long-term Government bonds. The House Ways & Means Committee approved a bill to permit the President to ignore the ceiling when necessary to sell bonds. The committee tacked on an amendment expressing the "sense of Congress" that the Federal Reserve Board should expand the nation's credit supply by pegging the price of Government bonds. Cried Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.: "This is an attack on the independence of the Federal Reserve Board. This is a directive for printing-press money...
...bigger charges. In a "smoothed-out" universe of newly created hydrogen, the atoms will all be slightly positive, and they will repel one another by electrostatic force, as all objects do when they have the same kind of electric charge. Thus the smoothed-out universe of hydrogen must expand as fast as it is created...