Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapid changes of modern life constantly faco people with new situations, forcing them to expand their knowledge. A symptom of today's intellectual expansion, he said, is the increasingly high quality of paperback books now sold in supermarkets and drug stores as well as bookstores...
...usual two-week summer shutdown of its color TV assembly line at Harvard, Ill. RCA, which went it alone during the colorless years, and now sells 55% of all the color TV sets and almost all of the color tubes used by other manufacturers, is spending $11.6 million to expand its plant at Lancaster, Pa. Challenging RCA with new competition, Motorola last week introduced a compact color tube that creates a 23-in.-long rectangular picture but is 5½ in. shallower than the RCA tube. Motorola sets with the new tube will begin...
Under the presidency of debonair and energetic Robert Finch, it appears that the credit unit accepted bad risks and then kept refinancing them, in the firm's eagerness to expand business. The risks did not show on the audited statement, and Finch unfortunately will never be able to explain. On May 7, his private plane ran into engine trouble and crashed on an approach to the Benton Harbor airport, killing Finch and his immediate family...
...million program of economic aid to areas with heavy unemployment. The bill easily cleared the House of Representatives, 224 to 193. By the end of this year most of that money will have been committed, so the Administration proposed a new $445,500,000 appropriation to extend and expand the program. Last week the House killed the new bill, 209 to 204, gave the Administration its worst defeat of the year...
Quincy House was the first to be constructed of three undergraduate Houses provided for in the Program, and it siphoned off 350, but the Houses still contain 123 per cent of their pre-war quotas. A tenth House will allow almost complete deconversion, provided Harvard does not expand further before it is constructed...