Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immediate assignment is to expand the work in applied sciences and engineering along the lines outlined in a special report commissioned by President Conant. Vannevar Bush headed the group which urged a broader training for scientists "to become leaders in an expanding economy based increasingly upon the utilization of science in an economic manner for human needs...
...actually getting," said Cleveland's Tell Berna, general manager of the National Machine Tool Builders Association, "is about 40%." Last week the Government's new "solution" was a super-super-priority, which gives machine toolmakers first claim on any machine tools they may need to expand. But that, as Berna pointed out, will not supply steel. And this week DPA recognized a new claimant for steel; it is considering supplying 800,000 tons for Britain's rearmament program...
...reason the Longorias have been able to expand so fast: Mexico's laws put a tax ceiling of 333% on corporation profits and prohibit double taxation, i.e., a company's profits are taxed, but not the dividends. Says Chito, "It's a good way. You have to let the individual grow. After he has grown, O.K., tax him, but let him grow first...
...week laborer. After a year of that, he went out selling shoes, sold so well that in 1933 his father made him president and stepped up to chairman (he died in 1938). Maxey took over at the bottom of the Depression, but instead of retrenching, he decided to expand. He started four systems of retail stores, launched an advertising campaign to plug the company...
This is only a sample, says the Bureau of Reclamation, of what its new machines, methods and concepts can do for desert country. Encouraged by recent successes, irrigation experts are now convinced that the rapidly growing U.S. can expand almost indefinitely within its present boundaries. West of the Rockies alone, they believe, 50 million acres can be watered into life. This would be like adding to the U.S. a new country comparable in agricultural productivity to France or prewar Germany...