Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thanks to cash from high food prices, industrious Hutterites extended their farm holdings in southern Alberta. Protests at their "land grabbing" persuaded the provincial legislature to prohibit their buying any more. The wartime ban ends next May 1 and the 33 Hutterite colonies are already planning to expand...
James Bernard, agent for the Capitol Laundry, countered all inquiries with an unyielding: "We're pretty well filled, and we cannot expand our service at this time...
Spending in the Arctic. After listing savings, Minister Claxton got around to what the armed forces would retain. They will keep in operation the Northwest Staging Route (a series of airfields along the Alaska Highway) and the Churchill air base, and they will continue to expand the system of weather stations in the Arctic. Canada will cooperate closely with the U.S. in operating the stations...
...envisage public moneys being used to meet the educational demands of the next decade . . . to improve our public school system by Federal aid, to expand and improve those institutions which provide a terminal two-year post-high school education locally and to institute a federally financed scholarship for medical and pre-medical students, engineers, and a few other professions,' he stated...
...President and his fellow champion of the capital switch, a hustling henchman named General Djalma Polly Coelho, see more than mere constitutionality in the scheme. They want Brazilians to expand into the huge areas back of the present narrow strip of coastal settlement. They hope that moving the seat of government beyond present railheads, smack into the healthful, mosquito-free heartland, might start Brazilians colonizing all the way from Belém at the mouth of the Amazon to São Paulo state in the south...