Word: extends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news bureau last week after his tenth visit to Canadian bureaus and correspondents in three years. This time White traveled 10,000 miles in four weeks, zigzagging across the country from Quebec to Vancouver, from Churchill on Hudson Bay to Whitehorse in the Yukon. His purpose: to extend TIME'S coverage of that booming nation...
...Taft-Hartley Act and a return to something more like the Wagner Act; the Republicans suggest modification and improvement of Taft-Hartley. The Democrats also propose an increase in the national minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour; the Republicans mention no increase, but want to extend the minimum-wage-law protection to more workers...
...take full advantage of their propinquity. Among the ideas for the new intercollege cooperative program they are working on: establishing a common educational FM radio station, sharing outside lectures and planning concerts together, preparing a program of remedial reading. If all goes well, the four campuses might even extend their share-the-wealth idea to regular graduate and undergraduate work...
...failures were in businesses under five years old; more than 90% could be traced to "inexperience." To attack this problem, the Administration last week completed a sweeping 14-point program of aid, e.g., a 10% tax cut on the first $25,000 of income, that will extend to small firms the biggest helping hand ever outstretched by a peacetime U.S. Government...
...evangelist who has come to restore his faith is clinging hopelessly to the branch of a willow tree and slowly sinking, like "a declining dogma," into the cold river water. The moral of this brisk little story is: Be sure your feet are on firm ground before you extend a helping hand...