Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This-long a favorite dream of FCC Chairman Newton Minow-should eventually relax the stranglehold of big-time commercial television, making room for dozens of new stations, most of them noncommercial. "If we don't expand television," says Minow, "soon we will have unnecessarily few people deciding what larger and larger numbers of people will be seeing. Without UHF we wouldn't get educational stations into more than a fraction of the communities that want and need them...
...Expand & Improve. The Panamanians want a substantial increase in tolls. Arguing that the charges (about $4,700 per ship on the average) are out of line with modern shipping costs, Chiari would like the U.S. to raise tolls and give Panama 20% of total revenues. The U.S. spends all of the $5,000,000 annual profit on canal expansion and improvement...
...members of the "Casablanca bloc" that met last week in Cairo-Egypt. Morocco, Algeria, Ghana, Guinea and Mali-found that transportation among them is so primitive that Ghana still finds it easier to import cotton from Europe than from Egypt. Hoping to change this, the Casablanca powers agreed to expand their shipping, create an airline cooperative, and start a joint payments union. But, like nearly all the little common markets, the Casablanca-bloc nations produce much the same things and have little to sell to one another. Mused an economist from Morocco, which still does two-thirds of its foreign...
Rodriquez, anxious to expand his family's 61-year-old shipyard, bought Lobau out and has kept him at work in Messina ever since...
Most lecturers do not have this impact, of course, but even for the ordinary, workaday lecturer there are several advantages in a personal delivery. For one thing, if he is there facing his students the lecturer can see what goes over and what doesn't, and he can thus expand and clarify confusing points. This can be particularly important when dealing with highly technical or highly complex material...