Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's 160 cement plants. With kilns cooling and stockpiles quickly dwindling, contractors laid off about 20,000 construction men in New York, paralyzing work on $400 million in highways, schools, hospitals, airport facilities, piers. In Pennsylvania, expressway construction stopped on a six-mile stretch near York; in Boston. Jacksonville and as far west as Cincinnati, the story was the same...
...pulse-taker A.C. Nielsen Co. a crucial fact the viewing public knew a long time ago. As many as 14 times within the hour, Nielsen deduced, audiences switch from Sullivan to Allen and back. The average viewer remains "loyal" to one of the shows only four minutes at a stretch. The discovery makes a mockery of overall ratings for the one-hour variety shows, since the "defeated" program may well have captured more viewers than the "winner" at any one of several peak moments. The other sponsor-sobering conclusion: viewers are not looking at commercials in either case...
Today-only 71 years later-Los Angeles groans in the echo of that cry. A once meager patch of sand in Southern California, its rubber-band boundaries stretch past a natural basin rimmed by mountains, flow over the hilltops and peaks into the valleys and deserts beyond, nudge the very Pacific beaches...
Together, the Chandlers and the Times press their Otis-given faith in change and growth. In their phalanx too are the engineers, scientists, physicists, educators, artists and managers who one day, say the planners, will stretch Los Angeles for miles beyond its explosive perimeter, embracing perhaps 20 million souls, and very likely leading the nation in thought and achievement as well as sunglasses and kidney-bean swimming pools...
Other educational leaders discussed special experiments which have been conducted to stretch existing facilities and personnel...