Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration shows no intention of changing its policy on such vital matters as these; and hence, despite the pep talks of Eisenhower and the predictions of Alcorn, the Democrats will very probably retain and even expand their gains...
Fascetti also promised that I.R.I, will liquidate the losers among its companies, let the rest battle private enterprise on the basis of free competition. While giving this assurance, Fascetti also plans to be a tougher competitor, spend $1.5 billion to expand. I.R.I.'s five steel works, which now produce half of Italian steel, will step up capacity by 60%. In transport, I.R.I, will add 56,000 tons of new shipping to its Italian Lines, and I.R.I. will merge the two airlines it controls to form a major international air carrier...
Puny Shield. At first blush this wave of war pride might be expected to help Premier Nobusuke Kishi's efforts to expand Japan's puny Self-Defense Forces (150,000 soldiers, 20,000 sailors, 15,000 airmen). But despite the fact that members of the Self-Defense Forces can quit the service almost any time, volunteers are few, and in March the government ruefully revealed that of 8,200 recruits accepted in 1957, only 60% had bothered to show up at a basic-training center. Clearly what is reviving in Japan is not so much militarism as simple...
...Italy and a second prize in Munich, is now planning to return home in triumph for a concert tour. Pianist Biret not only performed in public, she also had some of her own compositions played on the French national radio. Encouraged by these records, the Turkish government decided to expand its program, this year put 14 youngsters through a rigid set of tests and interviews to pick those qualified to go abroad. Last week three more Turkish prodigies were in Paris waiting 'o begin their formal studies. The three: ¶ Verda Erman, 12, daughter of a Wagons-Lits Cook...
...acute secretary shortage has forced the University personnel office to triple its advertising expenditures and expand its recruiting activities during the past year, Nicholai F. Wessell, associate director of personnel, reported yesterday...