Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed bills authorizing $300,000,000 to strengthen anti-aircraft defenses; $909,000,000 to expand shipyards, double Naval ordnance facilities, add 400 various-sized new ships to the Navy; making appropriations and authorizations for a $350,000,000 cargo ship construction program; extending time in which defense industries may apply for plant amortization until 60 days after construction begins. Total appropriated and authorized for defense...
Last spring S. A. Guiberson got his chance. With big Army & Navy orders in the air, most U. S. businessmen hesitated to expand their plant & equipment. Scores of manufacturers were worried about what the 1940 tax score would be, hung around the Army and Navy grousing. "S. A.," ingenuously, went to the Treasury instead. He asked the Treasury's lawyers point-blank if they knew what the new investment write-off tax schedule would be, was told they did not. His ears full of other men's groans, Guiberson then asked whether that meant he could...
...worth) that would require some 80,000 tons of steel; Union Pacific announced one almost as large. Steel's backlog grew bigger than ever, pushed delivery dates on new orders well into 1941's second quarter. Hence one of the hottest questions in Washington-should steel expand its capacity?-grew hotter than ever...
...time he took over RFC, Jones had so perfected this technique of delegation that he had only to expand his horizons to include the nation. If he wants Mr. Fuddyduddy removed from a directorate - bank, railroad or whatever - he has only to drop a light hint. Jones-trained employes are skilled hint-interpreters; the men he puts in office are expert hint-takers. For such reasons, underneath the success-story fragrance that surrounds the saga of Jesse Jones, there is still a whiff of old rancors, the skeletons of unforgiven deals, the shadows of shadowy doings. But in Houston...
...market all the salesmen went fishing. It was a productionman's show. Shrewd Old Dealer Eugene Grace opened his mouth just wide enough to lap up the cream of the business. He also took the lead in cooperating with the New Deal's exhortations to expand: $100,000,000 worth, half of which was Government money. On the rest, he got a favorable amortization deal from the Treasury for tax purposes...