Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Determined to break the log jam, Attorney General William P. Rogers told reporters at the American Bar Association convention in Miami last week that President Eisenhower has approved a bargaining proposal. If, said Rogers, the Congress would approve the judicial-expansion bill, then the Administration would promise to fill half...
Rickenbacker's move, made "to devote a major share of time and energies to basic policy matters,'' marks a milestone in U.S. aviation. After his World War I service as the U.S.'s "ace of aces" (26 German aircraft), genial, jut-jawed Eddie Rickenbacker plumped hard...
Money. Many a consumer who sets out to buy a house or TV set and many a businessman who embarks on plant expansion or modernization is discovering that it is harder to get the money he needs to do it-and the money costs him more. As the economy boomed...
Woolworth's new store, set in modernistic decor (wall murals, blue-green mosaic tile) in the $28-million Ala Moana shopping center outside Honolulu (TIME, Aug. 10), is a far cry from the red-fronted, musty-smelling Main Street fixture known in hundreds of U.S. towns for its notions...
Increases in manufacturing and trade inventories also continued to spur the economy's expansion; inventories rose to a total of $89.1 billion, an $800 million increase from $88.3 billion at the end of May. The inventory increases largely reflected a buildup of steel stocks in preparation for the strike...