Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rescue. The new Comintern slogan was "united front" against the mounting fascist threat of Japan. It was successful. Chiang's campaign against the Communists was deflected and dissipated into resistance against a more powerful aggressor. The Chinese Red army was saved. It proceeded to expand spectacularly. During the eight years of the Japanese war, following Mao's directive "90% against the Kuomintang, 10% against the Japanese," it grew from 25,000 to 910,000 men, claimed control of 50 million people...
...issue, Flair will fold. Twenty-four of the employees (including Editor Fleur) will be absorbed into other Cowles publications; the rest will be discharged. The reason for Flair's demise, said Mike Cowles, was that paper was too expensive and hard to get. And if Flair tried to expand, he said, it might have been hit all the harder by possible paper rationing next year...
...there were prospects of easing the shortage of aluminum. The Aluminum Corp. of America, Reynolds Metals and Henry Kaiser announced that they would expand their capacity by 320,000 tons, raising the aluminum industry's overall capacity by more than 50%. However, the new plants would not be in operation for another two years or more...
...last 2½ years. Thus, earnings will drop and Big Steel, and the industry, will not be able to attract the capital necessary for the expansion the U.S. needs. "Any reduction in earnings," said Fairless loud enough for Washington to hear, "means a reduction in the ability to expand...
Other cosmologists "monkeyed with gravitation," as Hoyle puts it, suggesting that it pulls now one way, now the other way, making the universe expand and contract alternately. Some "monkeyed" with time, too. None of these early theories settled the question of the galaxies in flight...