Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course if "improving the Metropolitan highway situation" simply means building more highways, then any addition to the system constitutes progress. But to expand is not necessarily to improve, for the construction of new roads like the Inner Belt may well add to a city's transportation problems in the long run. Cities build big roads to purge themselves of traffic jams; but the big roads attract more cars, until soon the traffic jams are as bad as ever, and the shortage of parking downtown is much worse. More cars downtown mean more use of space for parking, less for buildings...
Livelier students are on the way: Oxbridge refuses to expand, and redbricks are beginning to get graduates of Britain's top private schools. But not for many years will redbrick products be Top People in the Establishment. Three-quarters of all university graduates in the House of Commons, for example, are Oxbridge products. Though industry and the foreign service are softening, they still snap up more Oxbrigians than redbrickers...
...been turned down pending an analysis of the needs of Government agencies. Undismayed, Ellis decided to go ahead with his budget plans, with or without Administration approval. The bigger budget was needed, he insisted, to dig more bomb shelters, improve existing shelters, stockpile medicine and mobile hospitals, and expand the OCDM educational program. "I haven't received much encouragement yet," Ellis admitted, "but it is a vital interest of the President to expand and extend this program...
Though Italian auto exports declined 8% last year, Italian automakers hardly noticed the difference. In their own country, the prospering Italians are switching in such numbers from scooters to autos that the domestic demand more than offset the export slump. Fiat, Italy's biggest automaker, plans to expand its Turin plant to turn out 3,000 cars a day instead of the present...
...From its 28 regional and branch offices in Japan. Dentsu services more than 2,000 clients, accounts for almost 30% of Japan's total advertising billings of $530 million. (Unlike U.S. agencies, Dentsu handles competing accounts, e.g., eleven of Tokyo's leading department stores.) Anxious to expand the agency's operations beyond Japan, Yoshida this year will organize Dentsu International, hopes to establish working relationships with other agencies around the world. In anticipation of Dentsu's continued expansion along with Japan's booming economy. Yoshida is having plans drawn for a new nine-story...