Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reaches the point where Britain and the U.S. are really ready to resist, Russia will try to cash every chip she can while the world is still unsettled. The men in the Kremlin, who have an eye for history and long-range trends, know well that Russia can expand far more readily in the unsettled 19405 than in the 19505, when the peace treaties will have been written and the world's pattern solidified...
...volume, skidded into the red in the last quarter of 1945. But even the red ink had a rosy tinge. In many cases it was caused, not by a catastrophic drop in business, but by a laudable desire to pay off the old mortgage, i.e., the money spent to expand facilities during the war. When the war ended, companies stopped paying for their plants in installments, charged them off in a lump sum. As most of the cash would have gone to the Government anyway in taxes, this cost them comparatively little. But it lowered profits...
...Russian UNO delegates have been saying in private that anyone who thinks Russia can find the time oj energy to attack Turkey, move into the Middle East, or farther expand in eastern Europe ought to know more about the great problems and troubles Russia has on her hands at home. They then explain, sounding as if they were quoting President Mikhail Kalinin's speech (TIME, Nov. 19) to Communist Party organizers on how to meet the unrest rising from the relative luxury the Red Army saw in eastern Europe...
South African Delegate G. Heaton Nicholls claimed that South-West Africa was too much a part of his country's economy to be put under UNO. Far from being ready to turn over any territory, South Africans want to expand by taking in neighboring British colonies. They are not likely to get their wish; British belief and evidence is that the natives Whitehall rules are immeasurably better off than those under South African control...
...Founded in '76, Reborn in '48" is the motto that adorned the old Daily Princetonian banner when Nassau's undergraduate journalists changed the name of the wartime Bulletin January 5. Since September, when students began to expand the pint-sized news letter, the thrice-weekly sheet has amassed 57 progenitors, 17 of whom are executives...