Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turkey, making a thorough checkup at the start of the new year, found itself in excellent shape. The U.S. has pumped $400 million into its bloodstream since the war. By diligently using these millions to expand its productive capacity, the Turks have tripled their gross national production. U.S. Mutual Security officials deliberately encouraged the Turks to spend their aid on economic expansion, which would return repeated dividends, instead of on direct military purchases. The country's resulting economic boom has brought $100 million more (a 17% increase) in government revenues in the last year, which in turn enables...
...Princeton, last year, the program made over $10,000 employing almost 25 students, and was used to help support other undergraduate employment programs which fell into the red. Although Graham W. Tayler '48, Director of the Student Office, hopes to expand the program here, it will at present employ only...
When Gallup's findings hit the Pentagon, they created one of the greatest flaps since the Battle of the Bulge. Navy brass was furious, promptly suspected that the Air Force was responsible for the poll and story. Unless Washington has changed, the part of the service that will expand quickest is Navy public relations...
PROFESSOR HARRY (The Mature Mind) OVERSTREET: "If I expand the areas of my awareness, I move understandingly into realities beyond...
...made a series of shrewd deals (e.g., he bought 160 acres in California's Kettleman Hills for $200,000, sat by while others drilled, sold an undivided half interest in his lease for $8,600,000 after another company found oil), built up the cash Amerada needed to expand its oil hunting...