Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The philosophies that direct the two universities also lie poles apart. With the continually increasing number of applicants and the relative impossibility of expansion in Cambridge, Harvard is becoming more and more dedicated to an elitist education. Many apply; few are accepted. And this education is as expensive as it...
The desire of so many people to attend college cannot be denied. And to accommodate these hordes of new students, the University of Massachusetts has embarked upon an impressive expansion program designed to provide facilities for 10,000 students by 1963. At present, 4,852 undergraduates attend UMass along with...
Obviously convinced that there is no longer any electoral mileage in nationalization of industry, Labor's planners said almost in passing that they would renationalize steel and road transport (denationalized by the Tories since 1951), and let it go at that. But Gaitskell obviously hoped to make big campaign...
While every broad segment is expanding, the expansion is relatively slow in manufacturing (total number of firms up only 3% over 1951), faster in transportation, communications and other public utilities (up 18%), and faster still in construction (up 26%). In trade, the supermarket has cut the total number of food...
Culling Competition. The expansion has some alley operators worried. With fat profits (often 13% return on investment after taxes and a ten-year amortization of invested capital) have come new alley operators to share in bowling's bonanza. In some metropolitan centers such as Chicago, Detroit and New York...