Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wrong Business." Wilkins predicted that "There will be no racial peace in the nation, in the South or in the North, until segregation and inequality are gone." The Negro timetable calls for a speedup in the integration process, and the N.A.A.C.P. intends to expand and intensify its efforts on all fronts. "The slow pace heretofore and the brazen cheating that has gone on in schooling, voting and employment especially, have forced the Negro to demand acceleration and still more acceleration . . . Law-enforcement officers will have to bring extra measures of understanding and restraint to this situation...
...lungs of most newborn infants begin to work exactly on schedule. But among some babies, particularly the premature, the lungs fail to expand properly. The chest sags, breathing is rapid and the child turns blue. Many deaths during the first week after birth are attributable to this condition, which doctors describe as the "respiratory distress syndrome...
Hamrick, 44. wanted to expand his links to 18 holes, but he lacked capital to buy more land. To the rescue came that openhanded giant, the federal Agriculture Department. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman has adopted a policy of helping marginal family farmers convert some of their land to recreation uses. That approach, Freeman hopes, will both make a dent in farm surpluses and enable some poor farmers to earn a better living. Congress has obliged by broadening the lending authority of the Farmers Home Administration. When Hamrick read about that in a local paper, he sent in an application...
...expand the economy, Maudling aimed for a minimum annual growth rate of 4%, conceding labor's right to demand a 3.5% wage boost if this is achieved. Though he disappointed many industrialists by not introducing European-style incentives for exporters, Maudling installed a set of ingenious tax concessions designed to modernize productive equipment and lure new industry into the areas of heavy unemployment. Added to sizable previous concessions to industry that he had already granted since taking over as Chancellor last July, Maudling hoped that his new budget incentives would put the economy in fighting trim by next April...
...population continues to expand at the present rate, by the year 2000 the U.S. will find itself supporting some 300 million people. Will the country's natural resources be able to stand the strain? Having asked itself the question, a Ford Foundation study group called Resources for the Future spelled out a 1,000-page answer that bristles with confidence Come the turn of the century, says th report,' U.S. resources will easily be able to support U.S. citizens on the lush leve of living they will have learned to expect...