Word: steps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part will be public, under the Ontario Hydroelectric Commission). New York's huge Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., which owns the two U.S. plants at the falls and controls one of the five on the Canadian side, has already drawn an ambitious $150 to $175 million plan to step up power production...
...First step was the purchase by Junto of the Bethpage Realty Corp., which owned the 4,028 rental houses and was, in turn, owned by Levitt and his brother Alfred S. The price: $5,150,000 with $1,500,000 as down payment...
...Martin the landing of the first sizable commercial order in three years was another step in its comeback. Hit hard by the sharp cutbacks in military buying at war's end, Martin had to borrow $26.7 million from RFC, expanded its operations in such sidelines as plastics in hope of making some money. But in 1947 it lost $19 million, followed that with a $16.7 million loss...
...shoe industry has set up its own retail outlets, Ed Rand still intends to rely on the independents as well as such chains as Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney. But he hopes to make some changes. Where his father carefully avoided any razzle-dazzle, Ed Rand hopes to step up sales with a louder blast on his advertising horn...
Wider & Deeper. At least one Protestant leader welcomed the Vatican directive as a step-though not a very big one -in the right direction. Said the World Council of Churches' General Secretary Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft in Geneva: "The very fact that such a document is issued at all is a clear indication that the ecumenical movement has begun to make its influence felt among the clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic Church. We can only rejoice that such is the case." But he noted with regret that the directive "remains below the level reached...