Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money to expand, Piaggio borrowed $1,080,000 from the Export-Import Bank and ECA. Piaggio organized Vespa clubs, races and contests, thinks that "the best way to fight Communism in this country is to give each worker a scooter, so he will have his own transportation, have something valuable of his own, and have a stake in the principle of private property." Taking their cue from this, many industrialists have bought Vespas on a reduced-price fleet plan, sold them to employees by paycheck deductions. In Piaggio's own plant, 60% of the 3,500 workers who once...
...Soviet zone are 65,000 Communist "policemen" (average age: 19), organized into 24 "police service commands." Each command is the hard core of a fighting division, well trained by Red army officers in the use of tanks and heavy artillery. Last week the Reds announced that they will expand the People's Police into a full-fledged national army, probably 25 divisions strong, "to defend the fatherland...
Chinese propagandists, unaware of the connotation that George Orwell gave the phrase, call their Russian guests "Big Brothers," and rely on the Russians to teach them how to expand and run their industry and transport. If the Russians do withdraw as promised, thousands of Big Brothers will undoubtedly remain behind -in the guise of technical advisers-to make sure that Manchuria does not stray from the Russian sphere. Kao Kang has, in effect, two bosses looking on, and so far, seems to be satisfying both...
Harriman's speeches began to expand from the mutual security theme to a broader political line. In Cincinnati, he said there should be a Government "inspector general" to root out corruption. Before a conference of the National Jewish Welfare Board in Detroit, he called for the enactment of a new labor law "which protects the legitimate interests of labor as well as management." He dwelled lovingly on one of the Democrats' biggest campaign arguments: prosperity. Said he: "The average American can buy 40% more today than he could in 1939, and this is after taxes and allowing...
...installed. Driven by electricity, using no fuel, it works automatically when set to a given temperature. The air-conditioning industry, which is already doing a $1 billion annual business in industrial jobs, hopes to boost this fast with home sales, has other tricks up its sleeve to expand sales. One of them, now being worked on by Fedders-Quigan and one or two others, is a cheap, easily installed air-conditioning unit for cars...