Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vast Plan." On his last evening, De Gaulle broadcast a pledge that "France intends to initiate on this soil a vast plan of renovation." More than $35 million would be added to the budget for Algerian development. "From this year, the number of new dwellings will be doubled. Within ten years, all the children of Algeria will be going to school...
...youngest Italian Premier to take office since Mussolini in 1922. A teen-ager when Fascism began, he saw the corporate state as the ideal, and in what he calls a "temporary aberration" turned to Fascism. "Some day," he once wrote, "the European continent will be organized into a vast supranational area guided by Italy and Germany. Those areas will take authoritarian governments and synchronize their constitutions with Fascist principles...
...inaugural ride -and ready to carry tons of cement and steel for buildings yet to come. For Kubitschek, who plans to transfer 8,000 government workers to the new capital by 1960, it was a moment for an oratorical allusion to Brasilia's role as steppingstone to the vast, undeveloped interior of Brazil. The new capital, he said, "is the conquest of all that has been ours only...
Despite all talk about price as the great determinant, low cost is the major factor for barely 16% of all shoppers; studies also show that another 16% shop only for heavily advertised brands. In between ranges the vast middle ground of shoppers, fair game for the motivational researchers, who take dead aim with all the analytical gimmicks under the supermarket sun. They claim, for instance, that the undecided mass of supermarket shoppers -they call them "emotionally insecure"-really do not know what they want when they enter a store and often are not sure what they have bought right...
...from Du Pont last week came a new liquid gas dubbed Freon C-318. While the name was just so much gobbledygook to consumers, the gas itself may play a big part in their lives. If tests prove successful, C-318 will bring a vast expansion of the aerosol industry by making possible a big new pantry of liquid-gas-dispensed foods such as frostings, sandwich spreads, sauces and syrups. Until now, aerosol foods have been slowed by the fact that the liquid gases used in nonfood products have been ruled out by the Food and Drug Administration. (Compressed gases...