Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a foreign nation (Great Britain, Norway, and The Netherlands) in peacetime earns a good chunk of the money with which it buys U.S. goods by its worldwide shipping services. Thus, the U.S. cannot greatly expand exports to these countries if it deprives them of an important means of paying for them. Unless a way can be found out of this dilemma, the U.S. will find itself with a pool of idle merchant ships far beyond the modest 5,000,000 tons set out by A.M.M.I...
...idea we have to sell America." He also says that "when you get a businessman in a tight enough corner, he reluctantly starts thinking his way out of it." Thus C.E.D. was set up with a Field Division to help each U.S. employer think about how to expand his own business...
...punditical peace planners, believes his nation already has a long-range foreign policy. Such Americans see the world on a status quo basis, with Germany left as a nation under a new government, conquered nations restored to about their prewar boundaries, the gold standard re-established and attempts to expand foreign trade limited to bigger and better reciprocal trade agreements and whatever reduction of tariffs could be worked...
...fact, the value of football as a conditioner and a morale builder are making some institutions expand their schedules to include even more games than usual, although with less travel...
...March, the Loudons insisted on cash, but when General Foods bought out Snider Packing at about the same time, only common stock changed hands. Expansionist Adams, whose stock phrase is "some day we've got to grow some," figures that his fiscal contraction should enable Standard Brands to expand...