Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase in Naval strength, the Navy has let all contracts for the greatest fleet ever built by any nation-2,831 ships of all classes, from 45,000-ton battleships to harbor tugs. They will cost $7,234,262,178, call for an additional $460,000,000 to expand yards...
Last year over 90 students took advantage of the courses offered, and the year before, 34. Their popularity is attenied by the need to expand this under-undergraduate body in the face of increased applications...
...tabling Tennessee Eastman Corp.'s application to expand its plastics plant, SPAB made clear that it opposed any non-defense industrial expansion which would require too much steel or other scarce materials. Eastman's new facilities would have produced enough plastics to replace 6,000,000 lb. of stainless steel, 8,000,000 lb. of aluminum, 18,000,000 lb. of chrome nickel plated steel, 34,000,000 lb. of zinc. But they would have required both steel and stainless steel to build...
Except for Elsa's column Press Alliance thus far has acquired only syndicate small fry, notably a South American comic strip called G. Whiskers. But Press Alliance has started patiently to expand along the lines of its Blitzkrieged French predecessor. So far Winkler has sold U.S. publishers three books by Genevieve Tabouis, Pierre Lazareff, H.R. Knickerbocker...
...steel industry, with RFC funds, can and will expand its present capacity by 15,000,000 tons (17%). So says an OPM report on the President's desk this week. It also says that this expansion-about equal to the total capacity of the British steel industry-will "begin feeding steel into the defense program in about nine months" (it will be two years before it can be completed...