Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat of the Bevanites and the labor agreement in principle to a rearmed Germany has given the present government an added strength in making military commitments to the French. Further, by endorsing German arms, the English socialist party will undoubtedly strengthen those Continental socialists who have favored the plan. Already, as Bevan's influence is declining in Britain, the French socialists have started a vigorous housecleaning of the party rebels who opposed E.D.C. a month...
Another announced objective of the expanded program was to strengthen the entire mobilization base by keeping the metal industry healthy, i.e., buying materials when there were plenty available and, consequently, when prices were low. Though operating under a heading of military necessity, such a program amounts to price supports for part of the U.S. mining industry. This year, for example, U.S. producers of lead and zinc were in such serious trouble that they wanted higher tariffs to protect themselves from cheaper foreign metals. President Eisenhower last month rejected the tariff boost, but instead he almost doubled the rate of stockpile...
Thank you for the superb report [Sept. 6] on Evanston . . . Your summary highlights much of that digestible bread of life which can nourish us all and strengthen hope in very practical respects. Thank God for the outcome and promise of the second World Assembly...
...Delicate Situation." The ministers were unconvinced. Mendès insisted that his version of the treaty would still achieve the four basic aims of EDC: to bind Germany to the West, to arm the Germans in Western defense, to strengthen the government of Dr. Adenauer and to prepare the way for European political union. But what the Frenchman failed to see was that the "European" clauses of EDC, which one of his advisers defined as "mystique" were to the other ministers the heart and soul of the treaty. Mendès confronted the conference with what he felt...
...Roaring Twenties-consolidations were mainly within industries. The theory was that only a foundryman, for instance, could run a foundry properly. But in recent years industry has spawned a new kind of professional manager who can step into virtually any business, find the weak spots and strengthen them. Today management thinks nothing of buying into unrelated fields...