Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...except our own people; and if they have not the price demanded they simply don't buy. But this is all too simple for the great economic minds that direct our affairs. .. . ". . . We are making a part of everything we use and from this nucleus we can readily expand to take care of any or all of our requirements, if necessary. . . . "When wages are increased and prices held down, it simply compels the heads of concerns to work harder. . . . Increasing prices is a lazy way to make dividends...
...first time, topped the corresponding week of 1932. Electric power output was 16.5% above 1933-largest weekly gain since the rise began last May. The total of 1,658-040,000 k.w.h. was second highest since the New Deal and equal to 1931. Steel operations continued to expand with new rail orders supplementing the heavy demand from can-makers and the automobile industry. Iron Age estimated operations at 49% of capacity-highest since last August. Production of 4,200,000 tons in the first two months of the year was precisely 100% above the figure for the same period...
This does not mean that every proposal to expand business projects or that every existing business will get credit. It does mean that capital will be advanced to those businesses which can show by a record of their past operations and an analysis of their current progress that they can earn enough every ninety days or six months to curtail their notes so that over a year or three or five years, as the case may be, the notes can be repaid...
Most of the business men who come here concede the importance of increasing purchasing power and they do not argue for more than a fair return on capital. But what they keep asking is how rigid rules and laws can permit business to develop or expand at all. The 30-hour week bill in its present form is a big obstacle, in the opinion of most of the industrial and business delegates here for the big NRA meetings, and there is reason to believe that General Johnson's opposition to a flat 30-hour week is shared by the President...
...Manhattan, members of the year-old Society for the Prevention of Asphyxial Deaths were agreed that at least 15,000 of these lives could be saved if U. S. doctors were properly trained, U. S. hospitals adequately equipped. Urgently the Society called on medical schools and hospitals to expand their teaching and equipment, centralize their scattered units of resuscitation, anesthesia and oxygen therapy in a single department of gas therapy...