Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered (TIME, June 27). He hastened to make it fast by signing bills industriously all week long, working at his Hyde Park desk, collarless, in shirt sleeves and seersucker pants. With hawk-sharp eye, he vetoed a batch of little pension and claim bills, several efforts to expand veterans' compensation, a $3,260,000 building program for the Bureau of Fisheries, a pay-raiser for the Immigration & Naturalization Services, a bill enforcing publicity for PWA subcontractors and material men. These brought his veto record up above 300 since 1933, second only to Grover Cleveland's two-term record...
Ponderers of this dilemma argued at length with one another in San Francisco last week. Assistant Surgeon General Warren Fales Draper of the U. S. Public Health Service hinted that the Federal Government, which already runs a tremendous medical establishment for soldiers, sailors and war veterans, was ready to expand further...
Recently, Parker Morelli Motor Co., Packard agents in Helena, decided to expand. Next door was the late Mr. Mitchell's display room. Leasing this property, Parker Morelli also acquired no less than 14 old Mitchells (no relation to Dealer Mitchell). Some had never been used; they originally cost from $3,400 to $4,800 and when Mr. Mitchell could not sell them at that price, he had hung on to them. Parker Morelli, promptly putting all 14 on sale, by last week had sold the lot-at prices ranging from $15 to $25. One 1905 yellow roadster...
...President Roosevelt a liberal? [TIME, May 9]. The obvious answer is certainly not. The essence of true Liberalism is not to expand, but to contract the powers of Government. That is fundamental...
...year history. With negligible facilities for producing flat-rolled steel, Ludlum sells about 50% of its output (wire, bars, etc.) to the automobile industry, the rest to manufacturers of machine tools, oil refining and aircraft equipment, stainless steel building products. Last year the company considered raising money to expand; but the capital market was so stagnant that directors, fearing the plan might miscarry, called...