Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Action Center, which now has five full-time workers and ten part-time student volunteers, will expand three existing programs to focus local attention on the problems of urban redevelopment, welfare, and schools...
TITLE II provides an even $100 million to buy textbooks and expand school libraries, including the purchase of books, periodicals, phonograph records. The money will go directly to state agencies, will be handled entirely by the states, but distribution of the materials must be made equitably to private-as well as public-school students "to the extent consistent with" state law. To avoid legal complications, ownership of the materials will be retained by the public agency. The program is not tied to the poor; funds will be split among the states according to their percentage of all the nation...
...also proposes to tack on five notes at the bottom and ten notes at the top of the keyboard to expand the sound range of the standard piano (from 27.5 to 4,186 cycles per second) to come closer to the range of the human ear (from approximately 16 to 20,000 cycles). Her most far-reaching innovation is a pushbutton electronic system whereby the pianist can play from two to twelve notes simultaneously by striking one key. In effect, she says, this device "will give the player 30 fingers." It will also allow the piano to be "programmed" like...
...Alcoa's Pittsburgh headquarters in 1955. Eight years later, he was elected president, a job that ROW pays him $155,000 a year. An incessant telephone salesman who keeps his desk clean of paperwork, Harper spends nearly half his time on flying trips seeking new customers to expand the market for aluminum-a product to which he is so dedicated that he even uses an aluminum shotgun on the skeet range. To stretch his considerable energies, he has mastered the knack of demi-catnaps, often astounds associates by picking up the thread of a conversation when they think...
With money from the grant, PBH will be able to pay a professional consultant to work 20 hours a week, instead of the present 10 hours. Because the consultant will be able to spend more time talking with volunteers, the program will be able to expand next year by about 30 people...