Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Longer Reach. Seldom mentioned but not forgotten was that the greatest political bargaining weapon in U.S. and British hands was Russia's need for credits. Areas of conflict between the Western Powers and the U.S.S.R. lie much nearer to the latter's predominant land power. Credits may extend the bargaining reach of the U.S. and Britain at the peace settlement...
Baldish Paul Moss (whose licensing powers extend from pawnbrokers to meat markets and masseurs) had always kept a sharp eye, and sometimes brought down a heavy whip, on the theater. In 1934 he removed the runways ("varicose alleys") from New York's 14 burlesque houses. In 1937 he closed the houses...
...tall, chin-chopper boss, Chester Bliss Bowles, walked up Capitol Hill last week to ask Congress to extend OPA for another 18 months. As usual, Adman Bowles was armed with a great sheaf of adman's charts-150 of them-to show what OPA had been doing. As usual, he was urbane, softspoken, deferential. Only one note was missing in the interview. The rabbit-punching truculence with which Congressional committees have usually greeted OPAsters in the past was gone. This time the Senate's Banking & Currency Committee was on Chester Bowles's side from the beginning...
...Editors of the Harvard Service News wish to extend their most sincere congratulations to the members of the Class of 1946 who have earned their naval commissions through study and participation in the undergraduate program of the Naval ROTC. They stand out to sea well prepared, Harvard...
Collier's Reorganization Act, adopted by Congress in 1934 over the fierce opposition of lumbermen and ranchers (who stood to lose valuable leaseholds by it), opened the way. Indians finally had the use of their tribal holdings and the right to extend them. Also each reservation could, by majority vote, incorporate its business affairs under federal charter and secure a constitution...