Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twin pillars of a sound colonial policy, Colonel Stanley observed weightily, are "educational advance and economic development." To strengthen the first pillar, he proposed to set up 30 annual two-year scholarships for promising colonials. To stiffen the second, he recommended fostering "secondary industries [for] processing native products [and] simple manufacturing, not requiring the import of large quantities of raw materials ... to make the colonies self-supporting." However, Britain would still draw semi-finished goods from the colonies for her specialized industries...
...part of a $238,000,000 grant of PWA funds which Franklin Roosevelt wangled to strengthen the Navy back...
...many areas U.S. soldiers, summoned from training stations, labored for sleepless days & nights to rescue those marooned by flood. Other soldiers (7,000 in the Little Rock, Ark. area alone) toted sandbags in efforts, mostly futile, to strengthen levees. The presence of Axis war prisoners in Missouri was disclosed officially for the first time when gangs of men with great white initials "P.W." stenciled on the backs of their jackets and on their trouser legs, turned up to work on a levee near St. Genevieve...
This American radical will be generally against Statism; he will favor greater decentralization of governmental authority, though he will "be ready to invoke even the Federal Government in the interests of maintaining real freedom among the masses of the population." But he will want to strengthen local government in order to prevent his old enemy, the Federal power, from increasing every decade. To this end he would even work for a reduction in the number of States so that "new areas, fewer in number and more nearly equal in population" might constitute stronger units of local government...
...beginning the Third International failed to win dominant working-class support outside of Russia. Communist uprisings in Europe were bloody miscalculations. In China the Communists had perhaps their greatest chance in 1927, and failed. After that the prospects of world revolution dwindled, and Russia, through Stalin, worked nationalistically to strengthen socialism in one country...