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...board, your efforts will got a two-way boost. National, local, and College affairs are in its domain, and here also are the men who can tell pomposity from pizzazz at distances up to a mile...
...beat the shortage, the utility men were well into a $5 billion expansion program, the biggest in their history. Example: California's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was spending $500 million on expansion, part of it to transmit power from the Government's Shasta Dam. It hoped to boost transmission enough so that last year's power shortage would not occur again. In addition, the Government hoped to step up California's Central Valley Project's capacity enough to take care of another big spurt in demand...
Council efficiency came one step closer last Fall, when the group streamlined what was once an amazingly tangled network of committees, sub-committees, etc. Now the Council must eliminate more of the kinks, and see if it can't boost its batting average...
...finishing a $50 million postwar expansion program, Cat is going to turn out the new diesel and step up production of diesel-powered Caterpillars to grade roads, dig foundations, clear jungles and move mountains all over the world. With its new production Cat hopes to boost its sales, already the highest in its history. Last year, on a gross of $218 million, Cat reported a net profit of $13.7 million, nearly 40% over...
...Aircraft Co., Inc. plans to regroom and speed up the 13-year-old DC-3, the obsolescent workhorse of the airlines. To meet new competition, Douglas, which stopped building the plane four years ago, will increase the passenger seats of the "Threes" from 21 to 28. New engines will boost their cruising speed as much as 45 m.p.h. (to 234 m.p.h.). Other changes: a square-tipped wing, and built-in steps for quicker passenger loading...