Word: expansionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company for another company's stock, he looks for blue-chip prestige. Thus when Standard bought the Loudon Packing Co. (V8 Vegetable Juice) last March, the Loudons insisted on cash, but when General Foods bought out Snider Packing at about the same time, only common stock changed hands. Expansionist Adams, whose stock phrase is "some day we've got to grow some," figures that his fiscal contraction should enable Standard Brands to expand...
Treating the backgrounds for these violent plots, Grew continued, "Assassination is a well-recognized political procedure in Japan. When the extremists in the armed forces, especially the younger officers, believe that the Emperor's close advisors are too liberal in outlook and are failing to support the extremist and expansionist ambitions of the army and navy, they first try to get them out of office by political maneuvers and, if such maneuvers fail, then by armed assault...
Treating the backgrounds for these violent plots, Grew continued, "Assassination is a well-recognized political procedure in Japan. When the extremists in the armed forces, especially the younger officers, believe that the Emperor's close advisers are too liberal in outlook and are failing to support the extremist and expansionist ambitions of the army and navy, they first try to get them out of office by political maneuvers and, if such maneuvers fail, then by armed assault...
This policy might make the irreducible minimum of costs and taxation unbearable, owing to the low level of income thereby induced. On the contrary, an expansionist program, through the resulting increase in productivity and full employment income, makes the problem of costs and taxation a thoroughly manageable...
Opinion definitely divided on the touchy question of gold. Some termed the White plan "sounder," pointed out that, since the bancor is nonconvertible to gold, the Keynes Clearing Union might overexpand credit. Keynes himself terms his plan "expansionist," but points out that the risks of deflation (such as was experienced in the '30s) are just as great...