Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The University has all but eliminated its Department of Geography by cancelling the appointments of three of the four instructors. This move is in direct contradiction to educational policies at Harvard, to the desperate need of the State Department for political geographers, and to the expansion of geography departments in...
The oil companies argue that Ibn Saud and the lesser sheiks must be placated at all costs if America is to maintain its dominant position in the petroleum industry and they their profits. They add that any Yankeephobia among the nomads would invite Russian expansion into this American preserve.
St. Louis, the "Gateway to the West," wanted a gate to mark the spot. The citizens offered $125,000 in prizes for the best ideas. Last week the winning design was announced: a stainless steel, streamlined, 590-ft.-high arch to rise beside the Mississippi on a site which was...
Bevan's new health scheme, scheduled to go into effect July 5, is a huge expansion of the panel. All of Britain's 48,000,000 men, women & children (Northern Ireland has a separate plan) will be included; payments by workers will be more than doubled.
Semipro. In the. last year, A.T. &T. has raised more than $1.1 billion in new capital, for the biggest expansion program in its history. Wilson, a vice president, had put the program through at a time when many another corporation was finding the capital market sticky. It was one of...