Word: expand
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Question: "Instead of waiting for the airplane builders to expand their facilities, why ries?" don't you Knudsen: use "We the would gain automobile facto nothing but floor space. [Automobiles have] wholly different engines, of different size, of different tooling. The buildings alone would...
...grandiose Navy Office across the way, Japan's new Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, introduced himself to his staff one day last week. His was a critical audience-blunt Yoshizawa of the American Division, cross-eyed Spokesman Suma, dyspeptic middle-aged clerks and angry youngsters who think Japan should expand all the way to the Suez Canal-who had seen Foreign Ministers come & go like rainstorms. They expected thunder in this maiden speech...
With Japan back at her tiresome game of arming with U. S. materials-this time in the very week when President Roosevelt signed a bill to build a two-ocean Navy-U. S. steelmen (especially little steelmen) began to grumble again. How could they be expected to expand production for Defense, they asked, if the "damn-japs" were to be allowed to diddle the scrap price, perhaps clean out the country's junk yards in the process? They pointed out that the West Coast, where scrap consumption is certain to grow with expansion for Defense, has encountered scrap shortages...
...Montgomery Ward, which has in recent years ventured into higher quality lines, pulled in its horns a bit, but continued to expand its medium-higher-priced lines. Whereas the 1939-40 catalogue featured a top-price fur jacket at $139.50, 1940's stopped at a $69.50 fur coat. While last year's customer was offered a single $59.50 fur-trimmed coat, the 1940-41 buyer had three to choose from...
...best customers is Aluminum Co.. of America, whose big mill at Alcoa, Tenn., is loaded with orders for aircraft parts. Alcoa, watching TVA's firm-power sales expand, feared it might be elbowed out of the TVA reserve power on which it relies for peak-season production. (TVA withdrew 30,000 kw. from Aluminum Co. on July 1.) Alcoa welcomed TVA's promise of new capacity, but wanted still more. Proposing to build two hydro stations of its own (90,000 kw.) on the Little Tennessee, Alcoa asked the Federal Power Commission whether it claimed jurisdiction over...