Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...department also plans to expand its lecture courses and will have a visiting professor next year for a half-course on the Origins and Development of Contemporary Architecture...
...start, the Japanese will get 600,000 tons of U.S. surplus grain and U.S. orders for the sagging Japanese munitions industry will be stepped up. Japan will place specific requests for U.S. military equipment (planes, ships, guns) year by year, depending on how fast it can afford to expand its armed forces...
...between Crucible Steel Co. and the National Research Corp. For 25,000 shares of stock, the steel company has bought a half interest in National Research Corp.'s subsidiary Vacuum Metals Corp., the only cornmercial producer of high-purity metals by the vacuum melting process. Vacuum Metals will expand production 500% to more than 100 tons of metal a month for navigation instrument bearings and turbine blades...
Britain's $1.2 billion Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., already one of the world's biggest chemical producers, last week announced an expansion program such as Britain has rarely seen. I.C.I. plans to spend $364 million over the next six or seven years to expand present plants or build new ones to make everything from chlorine to nylon and Dacron-like Terylene. London was also buzzing over the company's jump into titanium. I.C.I, will gamble $10 million on a new factory, hoped to move into the market with an initial annual production...
...pooling their assets and know-how, the four firms built I.C.I, into an industrial giant by the beginning of World War II, and Britain had most of the chemicals it needed. With the funds and know-how to expand, I.C.I, turned its Billingham plant into the world's biggest chemical complex with 5 square miles of factories spewing out 2,000,000 tons of chemical products a year. Billingham made everything from fertilizers to sulphuric acids, annually turned out 100,000 tons of synthetic high-octane gas from coal and creosote oil. I.C.I.'s alkali division reached bulk...