Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tilletts decided to expand some more, then sell abroad to the textile-hungry U.S. But, although the money rolled in, they never seemed to have enough. So they took in new backers. One day the Tillett boys awoke to find that the backers had a majority control...
...something too. The examiners recommended that Pan Am hold its prewar mid-Pacific service from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hong Kong via Manila, expand to Tokyo, Bangkok, Batavia and Calcutta, where it would connect up with Pan Am's routes east from New York, thus nearly circle the globe. It would also keep its prewar route to New Zealand and add a route to Australia via Noum...
What was going on? The Greek Governor General of Macedonia said that no refugees were streaming into Yugoslavia, charged that Slav terrorists were raiding Greek villages. From Rome the Chicago Daily News's Balkan-wise Leigh White cabled: Marshal Tito had apparently launched his long-planned drive to expand federal Yugoslavia at the expense of Greek Macedonia. From Athens the New York Times's European Chief Cyrus Sulzberger reported: "There is a pattern behind these events linked to the politically homogeneous Governments of Greece's three northern neighbors [Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania], who are all ideologically tied...
Perhaps. But Dominion status would confer undeniable advantages. India would join a free concert of nations who wielded an influence in world councils more potent than the sum of their parts. Industrial India, with a swiftly rising output (mostly steel and textiles), would expand most rapidly under the careful nurturing of imperial preferences. If the princes* came in (as they almost certainly would in time), the Dominion of India would become a mighty anchor in the storms that might ravage postwar Asia...
Timorous stockholders, who have borne previous Budd spending (Budd ideas have sometimes lost money at a million a clip), shuddered. But they had small reason. The company had over $19 million in working capital, and already held backlog orders for 700 railroad cars. Budd also expects to expand its truck-trailer business, plus its customary body-building orders from Ford, International Harvester, Chrysler, G.M., Nash and Studebaker. The railroad orders alone are greater than the company's entire prewar output...