Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany build ships of 7,200 tons, provided the speed did not exceed 13¾knots. German shipping men sulked at these limits, asserting that they could not compete with larger, faster vessels under other flags. On grounds of military security, the British have opposed all plans to expand German shipping. The Germans claimed that the British were afraid of German competition. Said a U.S. official: "The British are hipped on the subject. You'd think we were advocating that Germany get the atom bomb...
This announcement is part of a plan to expand the Slavic Department so that studies in this field will be available to students in General Education courses, and those who may be called upon to use such knowledge in government and diplomacy...
...minded Walter Gifford never placed any reliance on fool's luck. He probed into Western Electric's rule-of-thumb business methods, impressed his bosses by outlining new accounting and manufacturing ideas on easily understood charts. When American Telephone & Telegraph Co., owner of Western Electric, wanted to expand in 1908, President Theodore N. Vail put Gifford in charge of evaluating the companies which were later incorporated into the Bell System. For his crack job, Gifford was made chief statistician of A.T. & T. in 1911 at $7,000 a year. After that he rose through the company with statistical...
...only a little more than a year ago that Harry Truman was demanding the scalps of "the Wall Street reactionaries . . . the gluttons of privilege." Since then, his Justice Department had hounded big corporations (see BUSINESS) ; he had threatened the steel industry with Government building if it refused to expand fast enough; and he had proven himself organized labor...