Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yesterday, 95 children, aged 8 to 12, had registered for the program, which runs three afternoons a week. The 228 families in the project have a total of 540 children under 19. Finn said he would like to expand the program to include other age groups, if he can get more volunteers...
...piecework to fast-knitting cohorts in the capital's Pushkin Dry Goods Factory, even to patients in his mental institution. Before long, Roifman's enterprise involved 52 factories, workshops and collective farms, was turning out sweaters, shirts and kerchiefs. Business was so good that Roifman had to expand into rented basements. After that, production increased rapidly. His total output, 460 tons, was retailed clandestinely at Moscow's busy Kursk Railroad Station through the collusion of two stationmasters, and at street markets...
...evaluating their capital investment plans and reconsidering some projects once considered marginal. Whatever U.S. industry may add as a result of the tax reduction will improve what is already almost certain to become the best year ever for capital spending. In 1964 the oil industry plans to expand its capital budgets by 8%, the chemical industry by 11%, the paper manufacturers by 30%, and both the steelmakers and the automakers...
...more income in the form of depreciation expenses under the liberalized depreciation rules passed in 1962. At the same time, rising orders for basic materials, industrial machines and other durable goods have pushed production beyond 85% of rated capacity, which is the point at which manufacturers generally decide to expand. Even in industries that have not reached that point-steel, for example, is operating at 75%-the pressure of competition is forcing businessmen to modernize and automate...
Government economists expect capital budgets to grow by 8% to 10%, moving into the $42 billion area, but many private economists forecast that the final figure will be higher. Rising even 8%, capital spending would expand faster than either consumer spending, Government outlays, or exports-and thus become the most buoyant force in the U.S. economy...