Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as 10%. To store gas, P.G. & E. is converting a depleted gas field east of San Francisco into an immense underground storage area. It will ultimately hold 84 billion cu. ft. of natural gas, enough to heat 16,800,000 homes for one winter month. Other projects: to expand the capacity of one conventional power plant by 330,000 kw. and to start enlarging three others...
...further step, the U.S. could expand its "Buy American" policy so that many of the dollars that go for foreign aid would be spent for materials in the U.S. The Development Loan Fund has already adopted such a policy; the Pentagon last month ordered the military services to favor U.S. rather than foreign sellers in purchasing supplies and equipment for bases abroad. All told, the U.S. could spend at home a total of $1.1 billion of the money allotted for foreign military spending, military aid and economic assistance. This change of policy could be effected without actually cutting foreign...
...people diplomatic program, the Bill would send a number of American young people to work directly with citizens of under-developed countries. If the Bill is passed, a maximum of 500 young people will be recruited during the program's first year. Under present plans, the Peace Corps would expand gradually, allowing no more than 5,000 during its fourth year...
...proposal calls primarily for common ownership of expensive theatrical equipment, such as lighting apparatus, stage risers, and stage construction tools. By combining their efforts, House societies could reduce budgets and thus expand programs, Phillips said...
...buildings housing the vague beginnings of an art collection. But in 1955, sparked by the late Edward Wales Root, son of Elihu Root, who later willed the institute his collection of 217 topflight 20th century American paintings, the institute's five directors pushed ahead with longstanding plans to expand. Running down a list of top U.S. architects, they finally settled on Manhattan's famed Philip Johnson (TIME, Sept...