Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab unity come from a lexicon of liberal foundations. By quoting speeches made by Nasser on several occasions during the past five years, he showed that the dictator's desire that Egypt spread "from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf" is but the traditional Egyptian attempt to expand, now under the guise of Arab unity...
From the refusal of a dozen-odd union officials, i.e., hoodlums, to testify, from bits and pieces of testimony from frightened victims, from facts pieced together by committee investigators, a solid picture emerged: racketeers have cut a slice of Chicago's restaurant unions and intend, unless balked, to expand into a boundless labor empire. Their plan is brutally simple: sell the café proprietor "protection" from legitimate unionization and collect monthly "dues" from him for a fragment of his staff-a fragment that rarely knows it has been organized. The weapons are terror, extortion and violence, wielded in many...
...seller. These articles come to you in Canada only because of the desire of the individual Canadian consumer to buy a particular piece of merchandise . . . To try to balance our books once a month or once a year with every nation with which we trade would stifle rather than expand trade...
...Soviet bloc now accounts for 5.8% of West Germany's total foreign trade, but only 2.5% for France, 2.8% for Britain, 2% for Latin America, a mere one-half of 1% for the U.S., which does not trade with Red China. Easing the embargoes is expected to expand East-West trade slightly but not spectacularly. The real barriers to trade are the facts that the Communists often have not had the cash to buy or have not been able to sell what the West wants...
...House defeated by a resounding 214 (162 Republicans, 52 Democrats) to 171 (21 Republicans, 150 Democrats) the House Agriculture Committee's wild, catchall farm bill to expand subsidies by raising price props and tightening production controls on milk, corn and grain, sorghums. Cheered Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: "A vote of confidence in ... those who are dedicated to returning American agriculture to a sound basis...