Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual by the Cabinet, promised that His Majesty's Government will: press on with Rearmament; speed air raid precautions; inaugurate penal law reforms; regulate the coal mining, electric power, milk and whitefish industries ; combat stock frauds; add judges to unjam the divorce courts; publicize the health services; expand housing; regulate the working conditions of truck drivers and raise the efficiency of the United Kingdom's fire brigades...
Professor Copeland concluded: "The continued deficit of the Federal Government . . . tends to have a two-barreled effect in shooting up the prices of commodities. First, the bonds serve to expand credit and to increase the amount of paper money in circulation. Secondly, the need for financing the deficit calls for easy money and the avoidance of those checks on credit expansion which might prevent an abnormal rise in commodity prices. . . . If past experience in this country and abroad were still of any significance, and if our affairs were not in the hands of a genius of unparalleled resourcefulness, I should...
Last week TWA inaugurated service on both these new runs. The one from Winslow to San Francisco is the more important for three reasons. It was ordered by the Post Office after a ruling by the Interstate Commerce Commission last spring forbidding TWA to expand in that direction (TIME, March 22). It is probably the most scenic flight for its length on any U. S. airline, passing over Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam, Painted Desert, Indian reservations. Death Valley, high Sierras and San Francisco's famed bridges. And by entering San Francisco, TWA breaks United Air's monopoly there...
...Davis will not alter National Park's four-year preparatory curriculum, but plans to expand its junior college course, advertise it more extensively than ever. He favors plenty of bowling, swimming, gymnastics for his girls, regular parties for neighboring collegians, frequent excursions to Washington nine miles away. Says he: "I look on this school as a magnificent laboratory...
...dual purpose of refunding and increasing working capital included Chicago Pneumatic Tool (70,000 shares of convertible prior preferred) and California's Food Machinery Corp. (40,000 shares of convertible preferred). Little Seaboard Finance Corp. went to market with 20,000 shares of convertible preferred to expand its small-loan and installment paper business in Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia...