Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Executives will also divert much of the fresh cash to expand and improve their plants. McGraw-Hill's annual survey of capital spending plans, out this week, predicts that businessmen's capital budgets in 1964 will jump 6% to $42 billion. Other economists foresee increases in capital spending up to 8%-which would help to keep the expansion going...
Europe's Common Market is continuing to grow, but not as fast as it once did. Last week the market's Brussels headquarters reported that the gross national product of the Six, which rose 5.4% in 1961 and 4.9% last year, will expand about 4% this year. By contrast the U.S. economy will grow...
...Vietcong. The more often this plea was granted, American involvement increased, and the more difficult it became for Washington not to grant the plea the next time. The danger lay in the possibility of having finally to withdraw in great ignominy, to hang on embarrassingly and expensively, or to expand the fighting into an unwanted major...
Rising demand, of course, does much to account for steel's snapback, but newly efficient plants help to produce the profits. Over the past decade, the industry has averaged more than $1 billion a year to expand, modernize and automate; it plans to invest $1.2 billion this year and $1.5 billion next. Last week National Steel opened a $100 million hot-strip mill near Detroit, and in Kentucky, Armco Steel brought in two new oxygen-process steel furnaces and started pouring iron from the largest blast furnace in the Western world (daily capacity: 3,340 tons). The payoff from...
Club 47 officials hope to expand their activities in their new site. They plan to go into a number of new fields...