Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must make plans to avoid mass unemployment after the war. We must not imagine that increased taxation and vast public works alone can do the job. . . . It must be done by the establishment of new businesses. . . . Industry must be given every incentive to expand...
This effort can be best exerted, wrote Hopkins, by giving business greater incentive to expand and create jobs, chiefly by "levying taxes with an eye to their economic effects...
...fight. Ever since he realized that his proposed "chosen instrument" policy for U.S. aviation was unpopular, he has been girding Pan Am for this battle. A month ago he politely fired the first gun in a rate war when he announced that Pan Am would spend $52 million to expand Latin American services, and slash passenger fares from 8½? a mile to 3½? a mile (TIME...
Wrote Grattan: "The great majority of those who are discussing what America must do to achieve postwar prosperity . . . talk in terms of employment in factories. This is a dangerous error. . . . Our main attention must be concentrated upon seeing that after the war service industries are given every opportunity to expand...
...first Hellcat was built in August 1942. Five months later, the production line began to tick them off. This was unheard-of speed in an industry which used to need years to translate blueprints into planes. When a Navy brass hat dropped in to tell Grumman that he should expand to take care of Hellcat production, Swirbul pulled a mess of blue prints from his desk, said: "We are." When the officer said he would rush priorities for steel, Swirbul said: "I've got steel." And he had it, from Manhattan's razed Second Avenue elevated railway...