Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Currently initiating a drive to expand its facilities to meet the growing demands of its clientele, the society is a philanthropic organization handling all but criminal cases for students and Cambridge residents unable to afford a lawyer...
There were other stirrings in Bizonia. In Ruesselsheim, General Motors' Opel factory shipped 24 Opel Olympia two-door sedans to Belgium, Opel's first automobile exports since war's end. Young Henry Ford II visited his Cologne plant and promised to expand it into the biggest automobile factory in Europe...
...Bank of New York president who will be chairman and chief executive of the new bank, was prompted by the "remarkably similar character" of their business (i.e., largely trust fund management for wealthy individuals). By combining their offices and assets (totaling some $470,000,000), the banks hope to expand commercial loan operations...
With his technical staff, he had visited the headwaters of every Argentine river, studied every public-works project, met every provincial governor. He had learned what labor costs, how the bureaucracy works, where industry might expand. Now, in a private capacity, he meant to go back, bid for the big-money jobs and cash in on U.S. know...
...schools were holding back. They nervously noted that it was costing the University of Michigan $12 million to finish structures estimated at $8,000,000 when they were started. Observed the cautious treasurer of Florida's little Rollins College: "Private or endowed institutions which resist the temptation to expand [may look] unprogressive now, but in a few years they may be pointed to as 'Pillars of wisdom...