Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister did little better at the Conservative kickoff: speaking by closed-circuit television to twelve provincial Tory rallies across the country, he managed to get off one telling line in an otherwise notably dull speech. Arguing that Labor's promises-expand nationalization of industry, increase export incentives and educational opportunity, create four new ministries-would cost too much, Sir Alec scoffingly dubbed the Labor Party manifesto "a menu without a price list...
...Sterling, III., is feeling a profit pinch because scrap prices have jumped sharply in the past few months. A surge of imports of barbed wire and nails has hurt Peoria's Keystone Steel, which specializes in those products. Some small steelmen complain that they have difficulty borrowing to expand and modernize, since bankers tend to favor the larger firms. But the small ones often manage to be more daring than the conservative giants, sometimes lead in technical innovation. The first basic oxygen steel furnace in the U.S., in fact, was introduced a decade ago by Detroit's relatively...
...yeast-run through a maze of stainless-steel pipes, coils and tanks in response to commands from a 30-ft. console of dials, buttons and lights. Though the brewing time remains the same-six weeks-the new plant costs less to build, requires less labor than traditional plants, can expand in small stages...
...Traffic is also beginning to move in the opposite direction. The Ford Foundation set aside $300,000 to give 60 professors of engineering up to 15 months of academic leave to work in industry. And Stanford University's School of Engineering last week announced plans to expand a three-year pilot program, originally undertaken with Westinghouse, which lets graduate students at its Institute in Engineering-Economic Systems alternate their studies with working for a company...
...college enrollment is expected to expand by nearly 8% this year alone. Furthermore, there is talk of year-round school and more interest in adult education-both of which would require additional equipment. The continuing demands of the space age are shifting emphasis even further to the upper levels, where the students need ever more sophisticated equipment as well as the basics-desk, chairs, supplies-that are the ABCs of the industry...