Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advance wave of this torrent will begin pounding at ivied doors. More and more people will want to go to already crowded colleges, and in this demand lies Harvard's problems. It is perhaps the most challenging problem the College has faced in its 318 years: should Harvard expand...
...directive gives the military thirty days in which to expand the number of firms to which it gives supply contracts. This is, of course, a direct change of the purchasing policy that netted General Motors a $1.7 billion increase during the Administration's first eighteen months. What hurts one's faith in Secretary Wilson are the attempts being made to square the new directive with his former policy. With the possibility of a Democratic Congress investigating the defense purchasing practices, it seemed that what might be good for General Motors was of very doubtful benefit to the Republican Administration. Something...
...assumption sometimes made that our potential rate of growth can automatically be reached may result in inaction. While talking bravely about automatic expansion, it could happen that we shall move sidewise or perhaps expand at a rate far below our potential...
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...plan works on a limited scale this winter, the FOA has virtually guaranteed to continue and expand it to a point where it can begin to have a real effect on the surplus problem. If the program expands, it can draw on an American reserve far exceeding what could be needed in any forsecable emergency--large enough to feed Chicago's population for forty-two years. At the same time, it delivers food where it will do the most good without the "dumping" that might dislocate a country's economy...