Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of ideas how to accomplish this end. We proposed to increase the normal issue from four pages to six; to run more pictures and photographic supplements; to run a column of outside news from the United Press; to expand our critical departments; and so forth. I shall not attempt to say whether our program would in fact have made the CRIMSON of that time a better paper. But we were wholly sincere in our efforts and we did, I believe, command the support of most of those editors on the news, editorial and photographic boards who took an active...
Most businessmen showed a greater sense of their responsibility. In all, they spent $15.2 billion to expand their production by new plants and equipment. Still this did not satisfy some critics-not all left-wingers-who cried that inflation was mainly caused by "artificial shortages" rather than by the enormous demand...
...Commission's report brings into full view the vast educational needs of the country; it serves as an honest beginning for a job of constructive effort that must strengthen and expand colleges before a half-hearted retreat into days of academic scarcity begins. Yet neither the problems the Commission attacks nor the proposals it offers are now. The past few years have only made the situation more precarious. The importance of the report lies in whether it will spur state and federal governments to use it as a guide for building up higher education to a point at least adequate...
...telephone king very long; he is well aware that such companies are easy targets for expropriation. But the deal helped him get part of his fortune out of Sweden. After he had done that, he could sell his holdings in the merged company, and use the cash to expand his less vulnerable Mexican ventures...
Direction. To expand this industrial economy, the government granted sweeping powers to Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe, a 61-year-old, U.S.-born engineer who bossed Dominion industry during...