Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company in the U. S., has total assets of $432,000,000 including 2,400,000 acres of oil lands in the U. S. and Mexico. The California Petroleum Corp., with assets of $98,000,000, has 70,000 opulent acres in California. Reason for the merger: to expand the Texas Corp.'s operations in the Far East in order to compete more effectively against the Standard Oil Co. of New York and the Royal Dutch Shell group. R. C. Holmes is president of the Texas Corp.; Jacques Vinmont of the California Petroleum Corp...
...from the Alps down along the Apennines and in Sicily. They produced two years ago 7,600 millions kilowatts of electricity. That was less than 200 kilowatts for each person in Italy (the U. S. last year supplied 627 kilowatts per person) and not enough. The Italian plants can expand to the great profit of the whole country. Such were points behind the incorporation in Delaware last week of the $33,000,000 Italian Superpower Corporation. With funds acquired through Bonbright & Co., Field, Glore & Co., and the Banca Commerciale Italiana Trust Co. (all of Manhattan) and under the presidency...
...Europe Suchard's swiss chocolate sells in vast quantities, in the U. S. it has been practically unknown. No sluggards, the manufacturers studied the U. S. market, intending to develop sales there. At the same time H. O. Wilbur & Sons, Inc., famed Philadelphia chocolate makers, were planning to expand. Common intentions led to the formation of a new company, the Wilbur-Suchard Chocolate Co., which has exclusive rights to manufacture Suchard products...
...time, and therefore cannot be expected, at least under present conditions, to displace entirely the more common methods of teaching. But there are so few good lecturers, and stimulating text-books are so scarce, that the study of information at first hand has plenty of room in which to expand...
Inhibitions thus expand...