Word: strengthened
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...satisfy his burning personal ambition to build a commercial jetliner. But his St. Louis plant is jammed with orders for F-4 Phantom fighter planes and Gemini capsules, simply lacks the space and specialists to handle the huge job. Jim McDonnell tried last March to take over Douglas to strengthen his position for the SST running, but the Douglas board rejected...
According to Williamson, the Bible points out other sins that led to Sodom's destruction, such as idolatry and refusal to "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49). "The correct understanding of Sodom," he says, "is of a proud, self-satisfied, materialist society, acting with callous inhospitality to man and at the same time rejecting the true worship...
...grew big by catering to Wilmington's richest carriage trade. Now headed by Francis' son, Edmond du Pont, 57, the firm long ago broadened its sights beyond Wilmington, can use Allyn's brokerage network to expand even further its fast growing business. The move will strengthen du Font's position as the nation's second biggest broker but, with $300 million in assets, du Pont will still be only one-third as big as Merrill Lynch...
...with Missouri leaves the nation's fourth largest Lutheran Church as isolated as when it began. Founded in Granville (now a Milwaukee suburb) by three German missionary pastors in 1850, the Synod later joined with Missouri and four other Lutheran groups in the Synodical Conference "to encourage and strengthen one another in faith and confession." Neither Missouri nor Wisconsin took any part in the mergers that led to the creation of the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church in America...
Northeast has never been in robust financial shape, but it was not helped by the CAB's well-intentioned 1956 decision to try to strengthen the line by allowing it to fly the lucrative New York-Miami route in competition with National and Eastern. The strain of financing long-range equipment, plus the difficulty of battling the established carriers, proved too much for Northeast; the line went more than $44 million into the hole during its seven years on the run. For the past 2½ years, it has been kept aloft only by financial transfusions from Industrialist Howard...