Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President in this hour of urgency had two ends in view. One was speed to meet a grim short-term deadline-the fair skies of spring in England, when Hitler may invade Britain. The other was to expand the whole U. S. economy into enormous productivity for the long-term struggle against a possibly victorious Axis -a project that was moving like a big river, so broad that the actual speed of the current was almost imperceptible...
Camps and Vamps. Whether or not the Rev. Mr. Swomley had a cogent argument against conscription, the Army's vice problem was bound to expand along with the expanding Army. Chief of Staff George C. Marshall last fortnight remarked the "influx of persons of questionable reputation" into towns near growing Army posts, begged for local cooperation in keeping soldiers' amusement clean. The American Social Hygiene Association, culling reports from scores of undercover investigations, estimated that by last week 50,000 trulls were on defense duty. The U. S. Public Health Service, anxious to prevent a rise in venereal...
...these devices Canada hoped to save $5,000,000 worth of foreign exchange a month, to enlarge her tax revenues and expand her war industries. Like Britain, she was running short of dollars with which to pay for her vast purchases of war goods from the U. S. Her imports from the U. S. are exceeding exports by an estimated $280,000,000 for 1940 - more than twice as much as in 1939. To settle the balance she will have some $200,000,000 of newly mined gold. By the new import bans, by taxes and by increased tourist trade...
More acute than temporary inconveniences was the problem of permanent housing. The present weekly payroll is $4000,000, but Du Pont, in charge of the Government's operations, expects to expand the construction crew to over 10,000 within a month, and eventually maintain an operating personnel of a few thousand less. Charlestown realtors looked hungrily for a housing boom. But fortnight ago Indiana Defense Coordinator Henry B. Steeg announced that the Government's powder plant will not be converted to peacetime industry once the defense effort is over; it will be closed. So Government agencies shied from...
Although the group is independent of any other club or any government, similar organizations exist at Dartmouth, Wellesley, and Radcliffe, and the Pan American Union at Washington has expressed interest in the work. The Harvard society is attempting to expand the movement by instigating the formation of clubs in other universities and South America...