Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seats of our pants." To help sales, Luckman thought that business should cut prices where possible, take inventory losses where necessary. Costs would have to be shaved, of course, and the way to do that, he said, was to boost output. There must be "a willingness to expand...
...nothing approaching monopoly in the press as a whole." But it noted that in 58 of 66 towns with daily newspapers, there was no competition except from London's nationally circulated papers. The commission warned: "We should deplore any tendency on the part of the larger chains to expand...
...Government itself had, in fact, been trying to get Du Pont to expand. The Atomic Energy Commission has been vainly begging Du Pont, which ran the Hanford atomic plant during the war and then got out lest it be tagged as a merchant of death again, to put its vast resources back to work on atomic energy. But as long as Tom Clark thought Du Pont was too big, there was small hope that Du Pont would accede to AEC's plea to grow bigger...
...exchange rates, but in Britain's high production costs. Get away from currency entirely and express these in man-hours per unit produced. The British product costs more than the U.S. product because British production is less efficient. No matter how she fiddles with the currencies, Britain cannot expand her U.S. market on a long-range basis until real costs are cut by more efficient machines, management and labor. The present crisis is a powerful pressure on British management and labor to become more efficient. Devaluation now would simply give them a temporary breathing spell and let them...
...stimulating battle of life, and as such it is generally regarded as a joyous occasion. Every June countless orators use graduation ceremonies to acclaim endlessly the ever widening vistas of creative opportunity that stretch before their young audiences. In short, commencement time is ruthlessly exploited to revive and expand the American dream...