Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardworking Derek Wiscombe had earned and saved enough money to buy out his former employer, an itinerant firewood dealer. During the next two years, with the help of an ancient wagon and an agreeable white mare named Gypsy, young Derek managed not only to get along, but to expand his business as well. Besides selling firewood in the Newcastle suburb of Jarrow-on-Tyne (guaranteed wagon-to-hearth delivery), he took on trucking jobs, even transplanted hedges...
Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said it was not possible at this time to expand on Eisenhower's statement last night at Oklahoma City about cutting down on nondefense spending to permit an increase on defense...
...Industrial Forum in Manhattan's Plaza hotel last week, the Atomic Energy Commission hit the uranium business with a hydrogen bomb. Said AEC's Raw Materials Chief Jesse Johnson: "We have arrived at the point where it is no longer in the interest of the Government to expand production of uranium concentrate...
...decision meant that while the U.S. will honor its existing contracts to buy uranium concentrate from mills, it does not intend to sign any new contracts that would appreciably increase production. Thus, after ten years of an all-out program to expand uranium mining. AEC put on the squeeze: any big new uranium discoveries will probably not be able to find a market. But Johnson did leave the door open a bit for the building of mills in hitherto undeveloped regions: "If new contracts are considered, preference will be given to providing a limited market for areas having no present...
...Institute will probably not expand much over the coming years. It will, however, in all probability, continue for many years to supply the world--more than half the members come from outside the United States--with many of the new theories of mathematics, physics and history...