Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second, Mr. Conant may intend to expand the ranks of the associate professors by the appropriate number sometime in the future. However, he would fill these new positions by new men coming up from below--men who are as yet lost in the maze of instructorships or who have not yet arrived at Harvard--instead of by choosing from among the ten assistant professors. Then in effect he is saying that he expects to find better men for these jobs in the future than he can find at present among...
Because his father had long been a power in New Jersey Republican politics, young Butler planned to study law, go into politics himself. But Columbia's President Frederick A. P. Barnard persuaded him into pedagogy. He lived to fulfill Dean Burgess' prediction, to expand Columbia from 5,000 to more than 32,000 students, to turn down the presidencies of Stanford and the State universities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Washington and California. Dr. Butler reports that Governor Leland Stanford of California offered him $25,000 to be Stanford's first president, when Dr. Butler...
...which other industries make goods-is no monster economic unit. In a peak year it may gross $200,000,000, about as much as the automobile industry (cars and trucks) grosses in an average month. But it is a key unit -when other industries stagnate it stagnates, when others expand it is busy. For ten years the machine tool industry has lived mainly on orders from 1) the automobile industry; 2) foreign buyers (British, Japanese, German) who wanted to make goods at home instead of buying from the U. S.; 3) more recently the U. S. aircraft industry...
...guilty of prolonging war. The first response from London was disquieting. The War Cabinet met, decided: 1) to base Britain's policy on the assumption that the war will last three years or more; 2) to instruct all Government departments to make plans on that assumption; 3) to expand production, especially munitions, to meet the demand implicit in that policy; 4) to maintain export trade in the interests of the civil needs of the country...
...notice that the U. S. military now wants its standing Army to be a fighting army, at least to the extent of five fully equipped divisions on constant peacetime call. Also on the military agenda, now that Congress has voted $961,293,102 to expand and equip the present Army, is a request for many more millions to stock complete equipment for a wartime force...