Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Development Fund is in the third year of its ten year plan, and has received about one-third of its $10 million goal. The college hopes to be able to contribute more to faculty salaries, increase scholarships and fellowships, and improve and expand dormitory space...
Even more important was the job of encouraging major industries to expand and recruiting new ones from outstate. They had long been scared off by an outdated and complicated patchwork of tax laws. Hodges called for a major tax reform to help business. Though opponents howled that he wanted to hand businessmen a $7,000,000-a-year tax windfall, Hodges got his bill passed in 1957. While it trimmed state revenues by $2,000,000 the first year, it also brought in new companies. The day the tax bill passed, Allied-Kennecott Titanium Corp. announced a new $40 million...
...neared 1955 levels. A year ago the index of share prices on the exchanges was 192. It hit 227 in June, has since soared to 277, rose five points in the first week of October. Chief reason: a shortage of stock because many companies have been using profits to expand rather than raise capital by new stock issues. The rise has brought in more foreign buyers, stirred Germany's first crop of small investors through new mutual funds whose business is booming...
...referendum provides that one-third of the Council members be appointed rather than elected, and stresses House, as well as Class, representation. If passed, the referendum would also expand Council membership...
...America, second biggest U.S. hotel chain. It announced that it would offer to its 850,000 cardholders, who got their cards for nothing, a new comprehensive card for $5. Hilton Hotels Corp., biggest U.S. chain, broke into a sweat; fearing the Sheraton competition, Hilton announced that it would expand the Hilton card, which is used in its 33 hotels in the U.S. and abroad, to cover outside restaurants and shops...