Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The shape of things to come looked even nicer. Last week alone, no less than five new plants worth $15 million or more apiece were opened for production or research. U.S. Steel, which opened one of them near San Francisco (see below), planned to have another one near Los Angeles...
Mr. Dewey's opponent has little of the Governor's efficient manner. Under great tension, Mr. Truman has frequently made serious errors, such as his angry request to Congress for the power to draft striking railroad workers. His administration has not been smooth. But what Mr. Truman stands for in...
The committee also intends to plump for expansion of tutorial wherever practical, and will attempt by various publicity devices to tell the story of a Harvard education to headmasters and their schools all over the country. The School committees of the various Harvard Clubs will aid in this project.
Russia is dead set on expansion, the President said, but when she sees that no additional countries are willing to adopt Communism, she will begin negotiating with the western nations in a more reasonable fashion.
He listed the "successful leadership of the United States among the non-Communist nations" as another bulwark against Russian expansion, and mapped out a program by which the American public school system could aid in maintaining that leadership.