Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Harvey S. Firestone Jr., 75, former president and board chairman of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.; of cancer; in Akron. The eldest son of the company's founder, Firestone was named one of the firm's directors in 1919 while still an undergraduate at Princeton. During...
The rush of orders is helping to push businessmen into a surge of modernization and expansion. The latest McGraw-Hill survey shows that corporations plan to spend $105.5 billion for new plant and equipment this year, a leap of 19% over last year, and about 5% higher than the Commerce...
Administration economists claim that the Government already has done all that will be necessary to cool the boom gently, by holding down the growth of credit and federal spending. Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is confident that the frenetic growth of the last two quarters will...
The reporter is a young subaltern, connected and surpassingly self-confident. He charges with the 21st against the dervishes at Khartoum, makes his way alone through the to the Nile, escapes from a Boer camp into an eight-day chase. Apart from money and fame, his principal aim in these...
Died. Frederick Sessions ("Fritz") Beebe, 59, board chairman of the Washington Post; of cancer; in Manhattan. After arranging the purchase of Newsweek for one of his best clients, the Post Co., Beebe abandoned his law practice to become chairman of the board in 1961. When Post Publisher Philip Graham died...