Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington last week went an unusual application. The McLean Trucking Co. of Winston-Salem, N.C., the South's biggest, wanted permission to go to sea, build ships, and expand into a $50 million land-sea transportation service between Southern and Eastern ports. McLean's reason: highway transportation costs have shot up 50% since 1940, and the company wants a cheaper way of hauling freight...
...plan under discussion would expand summer camp training to at least 12 weeks and would reduce the number of years spent in College ROTC classes from four to three. The proposal would also call for an expended program of civilian instruction in ROTC classes...
...pulled off a major coup by getting the $5,000,000 Lux Radio Theater and Lux Video Theater to switch over from CBS. Lux will make the change next August, plans to expand its TV show from a half-hour to a full-hour program...
...huge map of the Yard, each site meeting with some objection. When the prints sat east of Holworthy, residents claimed this would block their view of Appleton Chapel. If placed behind what is now Weld Hall, argued others, it would choke the growth of the College library which might "expand to 750,000 or a million volumes some day." One position evoked few complaints and was virtually settled on until someone measured and found that the house would run through the side of Holworthy. Fears of cutting down space for dancing on the grass, a form of amusement prevalent...
...office, which serves about 300 World War II and 500 Korean veterans, shifted to Weld from the Lehman mezzanine in September of 1952. Apparently, no decision has yet been made as to what office will move or expand into the Weld location...