Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some, it all sounded like a renewal of the feud between Giannini and FRB's Marriner Eccles, whose family's banking empire in the Rockies (TIME, May 10) stands smack in the way of A.P.'s ambitions to expand eastward. It was bigger than a personal feud. The board's complaint was unanimously endorsed by its seven members. Its result might well be a crucial test of one of the strongest Strong Men in U.S. financial history...
Rooted in Concrete. Next morning, they did, and agreed to expand the coalition. At a meeting the next afternoon (again at 2031 Locust), Duff, Taft and Stassen sat down with Connecticut's national committeeman, Harold Mitchell (representing favorite son Ray Baldwin), and Kim Sigler, governor of Michigan, leader of the Vandenberg forces. California's Earl Warren was represented by a close friend, Preston Hotchkiss. They figured that the coalition could count on 630 votes-more than enough to stop Dewey...
...More than dollars & cents were at stake. As most of the U.S. publishers doing business overseas were in the red, partly because of the blocked and inflated currencies, few of them felt that they could 1) indefinitely carry the financial burden of telling the U.S. story abroad or 2) expand their foreign editions, as the Government would like them...
...improve the paper, we can reply that so long as Radcliffe girls road the Harvard daily we will not lack the necessary competitive spirit to constantly improve the News. Far from turning future editors into complacent automations, the financial security would give the News its much needed opportunity to expand to six pages, to enlarge its staff, to improve its working quarters and conditions, and to produce a truly comprehensive Radcliffe News. The past two years that the News has had the benefit of compulsory subscriptions have seen definite, progressive improvements in the paper in terms of additional photographs, more...
...students than ever before wanted, and could afford, to go to college. Last week the U.S. Office of Education estimated that there would be 2,675,000 college students by 1950 (300,000 more than now). To house them all, the nation's colleges would have to expand their facilities by the equivalent of 133 Empire State Buildings or 76 Pentagons...