Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Walt McCurdy has been kept sidelined awaiting decisions by Yale and Cornell on his eligibility, Barclay has planned two position shifts to strengthen his starting five...
...wear my hair shirt." The President finally accepted his resignation after getting Jess Larson, 42, until recently general counsel for the agency, to take over when Littlejohn leaves this week. Swarthy, affable Jess Larson, ex-mayor of Chickasha, Okla., and a colonel in World War II, is expected to strengthen at least one major weakness in the Littlejohn regime-a chronic friction with Congress...
...Impose price ceilings on essential cost-of-living items ("food, clothing, fuel and rent") and basic industrial materials. ¶ Ration basic cost-of-living items "as a preparedness measure." ¶ Prevent wage increases ("although I believe there would be few occasions for its use"). ¶ Extend and strengthen rent controls...
Signal-Caller. The State Department, for its part, would like to see the conferees at Bogota limit themselves to one main enterprise: a more effective and tightly knit union of the Americas. This would be achieved by treaties to strengthen Pan American cooperation in military and political matters. State hopes that the conference will avoid embarrassing floor-wrangling over economic aid. Such controversies, successfully postponed at the Rio Conference last summer, should be postponed again, the U.S. feels, until a purely economic meeting to be held later...
Seats on the committee are not limited to the present five members, and Seminar officials expect to expand the number as work progresses, in an effort to strengthen the project as it leaves its pioneer stage behind...