Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bang. North Viet Nam could use it. Thanks to inefficiency and "natural calamities," the rice crop fell to below 5,000,000 tons last year (down from 9,700,000 in 1962), cutting the minimum ration to less than 26 Ibs. per person per month. To expand arable land, the regime has ordered the crash-digging of irrigation canals and the migration of 300,000 peasants from the overcrowded Red River Delta, were two-thirds of the 17 million North Vietnamese live...
...even as he was preparing to meet with the railway negotiators after his flight from the fair, Johnson had another idea. He recalled that he had an engagement to fly to Chicago the next afternoon to speak to Mayor Dick Daley, the Democratic boss, and his minions. Why not expand the tour? No sooner said than done...
Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, who is retiring from the University this June, will expand his activities as newscaster for WGBH-TV beginning this summer. Lyons currently works part-time with the station, broadcasting a daily news show in the early evening...
...Panama meeting last week, President Herrera was unanimously elected to a second five-year term. "Our institution must continue to demonstrate that, being a bank, it is also more than a bank," he said. "Therefore, we must expand our operations to respond to the needs of our national masses." The U.S. obviously agrees. Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon brought to the meeting a U.S. offer of yet another $750 million in Alianza funds for el BID over the next three years...
...Africa. At the request of his longtime publishers, Oxford University Press, he had left behind an essay, which was released on his birthday. His exploration of history from its start to the present, wrote the much-honored author, provided the "fulfillment of my aim. For my aim was to expand my horizon and my field to the limits of my capacity." Concluded he, in Greek verse...