Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which built wooden clippers, Civil War ironclads, World War I destroyers. The recently reorganized, refinanced Cramp Shipbuilding Co. (TIME, Sept. 23) got a $113,822,000 contract to build six cruisers for the U. S. Navy's second-ocean fleet, an additional $9,500,000 to rehabilitate and expand the abandoned yards...
...Even if Hitler sincerely wanted peace, it is doubtful whether he could maintain it. The German and English attitudes and ways of life are too opposed, at present, to be reconciled for any length of time. Furthermore, the Axis philosophy, government, and economy is based on war. It must expand to survive, and it will do both until it is destroyed...
...present sum of $6,000,000,000 to be spent for defense during the next fiscal year, is nothing compared to the sums that will be spent in the future, Hansen made the point that with the rise in expenditures, "our capacity for production must be allowed to expand to increase our national income...
...boom started." Thus the recent sluggishness of the stockmarket, despite soaring production indices, is evidently deeply rooted in Management's long-range mistrust of the defense hypodermic. This mistrust was confirmed by the Forum's feeling on whether now is a good time for business to expand: 26% thought expan sion unjustified by present conditions, 61% saw it justified in war industries only...
Prices. FORTUNE suggested to its Forum one reason for unemployment that was not Government's fault. This was the old Brookings Institution thesis: that industry itself had failed in many instances to expand its markets (and payrolls) by reducing prices. With this thesis a significant majority agreed wholly (16.2%) or in part (49%). Pinned down to the question of whether decreased prices in depression industries would have upped volume sufficiently to reduce layoffs, 27.2% answered yes, 35.4% perhaps, 37.4% no. Of the yes-men, one-fifth thought the increased volume would have boosted profits, 46.7% felt they would have...