Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wyatt program get houses up? Will the $600 million subsidies to the building-materials industry relieve the dismal shortage of supplies? Will the building trades unions, traditionally jealous of competition, admit the 1,500,000 new workers necessary to carry out the program? Can the prefabricated housing industry expand from $100 million to $2.5 billion a year, even with Government help? Added to this is the fantastic complexity of building codes, union regulations, price & market agreements, and ancient, self-imposed taboos which hobble the building industry...
...veterans come under Bradley's Administration, which employs 106,000 doctors, lawyers, actuarial experts, clerks and investigators; operates the nation's biggest insurance business (15 million service personnel policyholders) and is the biggest socialized enterprise in the capitalist U.S. It is also a business which will expand for many years to come. Examples...
...three services, only the Navy would say that it was ready for even limited action. Said Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, Deputy C.N.O. for Operations : "Within two weeks we can put a fast carrier task force into action in the western Pacific and another simultaneously in the Atlantic . . . and expand them rapidly...
...continuance of the present facilities for mutual security by the joint use of all naval and air force bases in the possession of either country all over the world. This would perhaps double the mobility of the American Navy and Air Force . . . greatly expand that of the British Empire. . . . Already we use together a large number of islands; more may well be entrusted to our joint care...
Graduate veterans seeking peacetime employment have occupied their efforts to date. Teele, however, who will present a report to Provost Buck this spring, hopes to expand the present mailing list, and eventually to contact all interested students before they reach senior standing...