Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arab idea was started in the '90s to extend the authority of the Ottoman Empire, revived by Lawrence of Arabia in World War I to win the Arabs for the Allies, squelched by the postwar mandate system...
...Utopian commuter service on the 364-mile Long Island is hedged with two provisos: 1) a 20% fare increase for 55 million commuters, which White recommended; 2) easing of the crushing property taxes levied against the railroad by local governments and used in part to build superhighways and extend subway services that have cut the railroad's busi ness by 50 million passengers since...
...Mussolini and members of his Fascist gang may attempt to take refuge in neutral territory. One day Hitler and his gang and Tojo and his gang will be trying to escape from their countries. I find it difficult to believe that any neutral country would give asylum to or extend protection to any of them. I can only say that the Government of the United States would regard the action.... as inconsistent with the principles for which the United Nations are fighting and that the United States Government hopes that no neutral government will permit its territory to be used...
...sovereignty would remain unchanged, suggested instead an international trusteeship for which the new Anglo-American Caribbean Commission might serve as a model, implied that if the experiment was a success the pattern might replace the battered mandate system throughout the colonial world. He spoke of studies going on to extend the franchise, overhaul the social and educational system, lift the economic level, encourage self-sufficiency...
With these things in mind, the Congress killed the embryo "rollback" cold. The House, voting on a bill to extend the life of Commodity Credit Corp. (which would pay the subsidies), tacked on so many crippling amendments that any Administration official attempting to roll back prices could probably be tried, convicted and hanged...