Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chrysler, turning out eight mediums a day, is headed for 15 by Christmas, and last week Chrysler told its stockholders that it is about to expand, to double that production. Like other manufacturers, Chrysler will go into M-4 production without slow-up. Last week American Locomotive Co. showed its production line for mediums, already turning out two a day and headed for three a day very shortly...
...pictures at top and bottom of this page illustrate why the U.S. can't expand copper production fast enough to meet its needs-four years elapsed between them. It took that long for Phelps Dodge to behead a mountain and lay bare the mile-long, 400-ft. thick clay ore body (below) for exploitation. This week Phelps Dodge is putting finishing touches on this new $35,000,000 Morenci mine in Arizona; next month it will start to smelt 6,500 tons of copper a month...
...Apart from whatever is left of the aircraft industry, Alcoa plans to expand its railroad passenger car market, enter the hopper car and acid-carrying tank car field, make bus, truck and trailer bodies...
...native hamlet. Novelist Cronin is a scientist, and the generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay on the goodness of man, they over step logical bounds...
...next six months -an average of 50,000 a month. Although residential building is at the highest level since 1928, it is still under 50,000 a month (F. W. Dodge Corp.'s August figure for 37 States: 34,708). Thus the housing industry can still expand, though in only one direction: cheap housing where it is needed most...