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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...
When McKinley attacked "isolation," he spoke as an expansionist, admittedly a certain breed of internationalist. But the motives for his internationalism-"McKinleyism," as Edward Atkinson called it-were those of high-pressure minorities inspired by self-interest. McKinley's reciprocity was a weapon of economic conquest, a give-&-receive proposition in which we gave a hard left and received the purse...
...With Expansionist Hunter in the pilot's seat, Northwest pushed westward to Seattle and Portland, hiked gross revenues threefold to $5,000,000, lifted profits from zero to over $400,000. Meanwhile Hunter made a long survey flight to Alaska, followed it with a CAB petition for a commercial route to Fairbanks, others to New York City and Washington. But the war froze these petitions in their pigeonholes, forced Airman Hunter to look for something else. He found it in a big Army contract to fly anything & everything from Minneapolis to Alaska...
...husky (some 200 lb.), black-haired Bob Nathan worked his way through University of Pennsylvania as a tutor, reporter, Real Silk stocking salesman, got into defense work via the Department of Commerce and National Resources Planning Board. No armchair thinker, he was an all-out expansionist even in the early days of defense; helped get the "Victory Program" adopted. Even Old Dealers think him one of the best young Government career...