Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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True, he was nearing the end of his budget-the Army had the money to pay for 185,000 draftees during the fiscal year, and he was only 35,000 short of that figure. But Congress would have to expand the draft; he didn't think, he testified, that the Army would try "to get by with anywhere near as low" a figure. The 185,000-man ceiling, he added, "actually doesn't mean anything, as I see it, because we have been talking right along in terms of 20,000 men a month...
...social policy at all; in fact, it has no social sense. There are some emergency relief operations for the homeless, but nothing is done on a serious scale to combat the diseases (malaria, conjunctivitis, amebic dysentery) which ravage the country. There is no overall plan to help agriculture or expand education facilities...
...Eugene C. Pulliam's* Republic. The letter, they said, was a fake, a rewrite of old prohibitionist propaganda that had been planted in the Republic as part of the drys' campaign to put over a local option law backed, added the wets, by Oklahoma bootleggers anxious to expand their business...
...that hefty sum, the President decided this week to ask for another $4 billion to arm the nation's North Atlantic allies-an appropriation that would expand the year-old arms-for-Europe program to nearly five times its original size...
...Decided to expand its civilian staff by 237,000-about a third of them "white collar" workers and the rest of them "blue collar" employees, i.e., skilled and semiskilled workmen. In the past year, in Defense Secretary Johnson's economy drive, the Pentagon had earlier fired 171,000 civilian employees...