Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acts of Man. Bad news was tempered with good. Alemán pointed to the Papaloapan River project that would set up a sort of Mexican TVA (TIME, March 31), a related plan to expand facilities for farm credit, and another to return to silver coinage, a move that would help the mining industry. His best piece of news had been written into the address at the last minute: after a nine-year controversy, Mexico had finally settled the oil expropriation row with Britain. For Royal Dutch Shell's subsidiary, the El Águila Petroleum Co., Mexico would...
...past few months. The Ace-originated CBS Was There (TIME, Aug. 4) was abandoned after seven weeks, and Ace is gloomy about his Robert Q. Lewis Little Show (TIME, June 23): "I gave 'em a good, tight, 15-minute comedy show and what do they do? They expand it to half an hour and throw in an orchestra and an audience. . . . Who the hell said a comedy show had to be half an hour? Marconi? Ida Cantor...
...roughly $10 billion). But, in a reverse way, the price inflation also makes the picture look even rosier. By prompting the postponement of hundreds of building programs until costs go down, it disguises the real-and much greater-size of the nation's active potential to expand. It also testifies to the strength of the confidence on which present expansion is based: industrialists are pushing $1,000,000 projects with no less eagerness than when they originally planned them as $800,000 projects...
...enhance profits and to fortify their monopoly." The charge was echoed by Henry Wallace's New Republic: "Despite the fact that other industries such as oil and container manufacturers are crying aloud that their work is hampered by a lack of steel, the steel industry has refused to expand . . . content with current high profits and fearful of another depression...
With 1250 new applications for rooms in front of him, Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College, in charge of undergraduate housing, said yesterday that commuting requirements cannot be lowered and that unless there is an unexpected shrinkage at registration the Houses may have to expand their capacities even further...