Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith did a number of monumental sized sculptures in which he drew flat figures using metal strips as line. In Australia (1951), the basic description of the figure is strictly two dimensional. This over-all quality forces the viewer to see even the volumetric elements which expand out beyond the picture plane, as part of the same two dimensional surface...
...deal with the one-third unqualified for military service according to present standards, the Secretary urged that the military expand its facilities for training and rehabilitation. "By selecting from these men those who can benefit from military service, putting them through the military, using them for military service," he explained, the government can incidentally equip them with "skills and attitudes that will turn them into productive members of our society...
...passed the last legislative hurdle, and awaits only the signatures of some of the participating companies. Under the program, the government will acquire a 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two other new mining ventures, including one that will expand operations at Chuquicamata, which is already the world's largest open-pit copper mine. Ultimately, Chile hopes to double production by 1970 to 1,200,000 tons a year and bring in an additional $300 million in foreign exchange...
...reports from Washington and from the American Bankers' Association convention in San Francisco last week that the worst of the credit squeeze appears to be over; forecasts by the Commerce Department that in 1967 capital spending will increase by a healthy 8% and the gross national product will expand by 4%, to $770 billion. Led upward by blue-chip issues, the Dow-Jones industrial average gained nearly 21 points, crossed the psychologically important 800 mark at midweek, and closed at 808-up 9% from the year's low of four weeks...
Partly for that reason, earnings are unlikely to expand quite so fast next year. When the full effects of tight money, suspension of the 7% investment tax credit-and possibly a corporate tax increase-appear on the balance sheets, says Humble Oil Economist Kenneth Lay, "pressure on profit margins will become apparent...