Word: expand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fissionable atoms are too far apart for a chain reaction to get started. Being heavy, they sink gradually toward the center of the star. As they sink, they approach one another. When they get close enough, a chain reaction is set off. Its heat and radiation make the star expand until the fissionable materials in it are too far apart to react any more...
...complaint against them than against the bureaucracy. A small factory owner complained: "To add a wing to my plant, or to get an import license for a small quantity of raw materials, I know I will have to bribe about six people. So only the rich can afford to expand...
...million since the war. But General Foods had reinvested half its profits in modernization and new plants. Earnings, said Francis, were the best kind of venture capital, because there was no worry about interest payments. Without this "costless capital," Francis indicated, General Foods might not have been able to expand...
...C.I.O.'s case was made by chesty, talky Economist Stanley Ruttenberg, and it was a muddled one. Ruttenberg first accused businessmen of failing to expand production, then he accused them of hoarding earnings to expand and build up monopolistic enterprises. He castigated steel companies for putting away earnings as reserves against a depression, saying: "This is an extremely dangerous attitude for American industry to take." Ruttenberg's cureall: an all-out attack on "monopoly" by slapping on excess profits and undistributed profits taxes...
...telescope also has another ailment. Complicated tests have proved that the edge of the mirror responds to temperature changes more quickly than the center. This makes the glass expand and contract unevenly, throwing the mirror's curvature out of whack...