Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on to expand on his points: Industry. "Conditions in America are very advanced and none can reach, let alone surpass, the progress in that country," said onetime Marxist U Nu. He cited examples. He had been skeptical that Ford could put a car together in two minutes, but while he watched, Ford workmen put one together in 58 seconds. In Knoxville, Tenn., a waiter in a small hotel told him he owned two cars (one for himself and one for his wife) and earned as much money as the Premier...
Last week President Ballantine learned that trust would not be his only asset in the future. Still grateful for the special instruction it gave Turkish officers during World War II, the government wants the college to start a school of business and to expand its engineering school to train 1,000 rather than only 250 students a year. Meanwhile, a group of alumni and friends have organized the Turkish-American Educational Society to supplement Robert's $4,000,000 endowment with gifts of $170,000 a year. In return for all this, Duncan Ballantine hopes to make Robert play...
...complete elimination of the write-offs. But he wanted a program which would grant rapid tax write-offs to produce a defense item available in no other way. Plants that make products which have a civilian use should stand on their own feet, said he, and expand with the market, not under Government stimulus. Humphrey expects the Government to have a new program ready soon "on a proper basis...
...Returns average only 3% a year on investment, compared to 9% for manufacturers and about 20% for oil producers. But now Mexico has launched a new policy to give utilities a break. Reversing the long anti-utility trend, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines wants to encourage foreign-owned utilities to expand as part of a $500 million plan to treble power production and make private enterprise an equal partner in meeting the nation's needs. Said President Ruiz Cortines: "The objective of the government . . . is clear: to complement, advise and stimulate enterprise, not to supplant it." As a stimulating start...
...Construction will stabilize as home-building eases and public works expand...