Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tougher Than Usual. The possibility of an inflationary steel settlement was only one cause for concern as the U.S. basked in its 54th straight month of prosperity. Even more disturbing was the anticipated spurt in defense spending to pay for the expanding war in Viet Nam. So far this year, President Johnson has demanded only $2.4 billion in supplementary funds to fight the war, but that figure is virtually certain to top $5 billion by the end of the current fiscal year; it could soar as high as $12 billion a year thereafter. In addition, congressional eagerness to expand Administration...
...ever-deepening U.S. commitment in Viet Nam: Harry Truman's 1950 decision to aid the French in Indo-China; Dwight Eisenhower's 1954 pledge to support Ngo Dinh Diem's fledgling South Vietnamese government, principally with economic aid; John F. Kennedy's 1961 decision to expand the U.S. military effort as Laos crumbled and Viet Cong terror increased; and Lyndon's massive intensification of the U.S. involvement...
...billion bu. of corn, 640 million bu. of grain sorghum, 12 million bales of cotton and 1.1 billion Ibs. of tobacco. Though it has shrunk somewhat as a result of Food for Peace shipments, this vast reserve costs $365 million a year merely to store, and threatens to expand again as a result of this year's mighty harvest-which Agriculture Department officials view as an unmitigated disaster...
...National Disgrace." Both the information explosion and the population explosion have forced libraries of all kinds to expand and to build anew at a spectacular rate, often with striking esthetic effect (see color pages). U.S. colleges alone more than doubled their annual library-building outlay, from $21 million to $58 million, between 1957 and 1962, and spent a total of $211 million. In the succeeding six-year period, from 1963 through 1968, they will have tripled that amount to $650 million. The nation's largest library, the Library of Congress, has just renovated its main reading room...
Attacking Obsolescence. The capital expenditures announced by U.S. Steel will need a healthy financial structure to support them. Over the next three years the company will spend $1.8 billion−more than the entire industry's capital expenditures last year−to expand and modernize its facilities. Priority will be given to plants that will produce such products as flat-rolled sheet steel−used in great quantity by Detroit's automakers−and tin plate, highly profitable items that now account for too little a share of U.S. Steel's current production...