Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cannot Expand Gradually...
...IRON PIPEMAKER, Pittsburgh's A. M. Byers Co. (nine-month net sales: $23 million), will be taken over by Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth biggest U.S. rubber company. In stock swap after long negotiations, General Tire has acquired about 75% of Byers' stock, will expand production and push it into General's booming plastics business...
...Hand. In its manipulation of these controls, has the Fed clamped down too hard on credit? Most bankers say that companies with solid earnings records and established lines of credit will have no difficulty raising money (though at a higher price) for productive uses, e.g., to expand plants, construct office buildings, etc. Ford Motor Co., for example, raised $250 million for plant expansion last month, but had to pay 4% for the 20-year loan. However, some banks are so short of money that they turn over many of their loans to insurance companies, the last great reservoir of private...
...campaign to pit Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter against Dick Nixon for the Republican vice-presidential nomination (TIME, Aug. 6). Back went a call to Stassen: Just what did he have in mind? Replied Harold: he wanted the President's permission to take a month's leave to expand his pro-Herter activities. With a sigh of relief the appointment-makers fixed a time, and early last week Stassen was winging to Ike's Gettysburg farm for a friendly 20 minutes...
...fruitfulness than the Hutterites, the bearded and devout descendants of German-speaking immigrants who fled Russia in 1874, seeking freedom to practice their austere faith. But Alberta's 4,000 Hutterites have been increasingly cramped by a provincial law restricting their land purchases and urgently want room to expand. Last week some of them seemed to have found their promised land in the Big Bend country of the Columbia River in the state of Washington...