Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before long, Nash hopes to have Rambler sedans ready to sell, probably in the $1,100 range. Nash is spending $5,000,000 to expand its Kenosha, Wis. . plant to build bodies for the new cars, has already produced enough convertibles to stock its dealers. It has not yet made up its mind whether it will make the N.X.I. (TIME, Jan. 16), a still smaller and cheaper car that it paraded around the U.S. last winter to see if there was a market...
Gussie Busch, who still refers to good beer as "the workingman's champagne," attributes much of Budweiser's success to its lengthy and more costly brewing process, in which it is fermented twice. Although the company has spent $64 million since Repeal to expand plants and boost production, Gussie Busch says it is still a race between the architect and the brew-master-and the brewmaster is in the lead...
...putting himself in the customer's shoes-and giving the customer what he wants-Ling Warren has helped expand Safeway Stores Inc. into a grocery chain second only in dollar volume to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Last year Safeway rang up a net profit of $14.4 million, highest in its 24-year history, even though gross sales of $1 billion were down 7% from the year before because of a reduction in food prices and the number of Safeway stores. But Warren doesn't intend to let the gross stay down...
...billion-dollar business, and have become standard exchange in every corner of the world. (So valued are they, in fact, that last year a ring started to counterfeit $1,000,000 of them-and was nabbed.) As the demand for travelers' cheques grew, American. Express had to expand its services abroad (it sold its domestic freight business to Railway Express...
...Rights as possible, for in order to help the institutions, the money flowing in must be enough to cover the additional outlays required to finance a larger student body. This "Civilian Bill of Rights" would then be a financial blessing to the schools whether or not they wanted to expand enrollment. Colleges like Harvard that might not choose to take in any more students could be more selective of those they did admit; at he same time they could save some of their precious unrestricted funds as the government took over part of the scholarship burden. Meanwhile, other colleges that...