Word: extended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both branches voted to extend the present national-debt limit ($281 billion) for another year...
...State Department calls Japan's invitation to GATT a "notable achievement for the U.S. foreign economic program," and the delighted Japanese officials in Geneva poured champagne. But Britain, beset by Japan's competition with her depressed Lancashire textile industry, announced that it would not extend GATT's most-favored-nation treatment to Japan. Also outraged : the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute, which called the new U.S. tariff agreement with Japan "a staggering blow" to U.S. textile makers...
...wanted to take over a Lima (Ohio) plant that it had operated for the Government, but backed out because it could not get a guarantee of future water supplies. Ford Motor Co. built a huge new plant at Walton Hills, outside Cleveland, but only after the city agreed to extend its water mains. If Denver cannot find more water, its industrial growth must grind to a halt...
Since Congress seems ready to extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, U.S. membership in GATT stands a good chance of continuing. But the supporters of freer world trade argue that this is not enough. GATT should be strengthened by a full-fledged agency to administer it. Some nations, e.g., France, have gone along with GATT only because the U.S. is firmly committed to it. If Congress refuses to approve OTC, other nations will regard it as a vote against GATT. They will hesitate to cooperate in any further trade agreements, and the most successful mechanism that has been...
...Sunday evening, as a February wind knifed across Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill, four members of the new, reform-minded Republican Assembly knocked on the door of William Thacher Longstreth. The four had come to extend an invitation. It was worded to appeal to Longstreth as a former Princeton football star. an advertising executive and a lifelong Republican...