Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tool for the Job. What was significant to U.S. industrialists, worried by the C.I.O.'s streak of socialistic thinking, was labor's wholehearted agreement that a "system of private competitive capitalism must continue to be the foundation of our . . . expanding economy. . . . The inherent right of management to direct . . . shall be preserved. . . . So that enterprise may develop and expand and earn a reasonable profit, management must be free as well from unnecessary governmental interference...
Although immediately after Pearl Harbor the government began to expand its plans for synthetic rubber, President Conant asserted that without gasoline rationing the country would have met with disaster in its tire supply for civilian necessities...
...reasoning behind this news was clear enough. To shake off the old lethargy and face the growing challenge for world air routes, it was obviously necessary for the British Government to expand its monopoly to include all the experience, equipment and money its private transportation industry could muster - even though some British shippers and independent airlines bellowed for free competition...
...Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, Mr. Sever's trustee, ran for cover, leaving the Cook County Court to appoint a three-man committee to interpret the will. On the premise that Mr. Sever's intention was to set up a new school and not to expand one already existing, the committee decided in favor of St. Louis University, which has no technological school and had made no claim to the bequest...
...Russian-dominated territory. The Church has been left strictly alone irf Poland, even in the property-sharing schemes of the Lublin Government. Such a policy, while helping to dispel the general belief that Bolshevism is the enemy of religion, would unquestionably make it much easier for Russia to expand its spheres of influence...