Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the European Coal & Steel Community, long the shining practical example of a European readiness to surrender some sovereignty, has come upon hard times. For its first six years, its member nations (France, Germany, Italy and Benelux) went along cheerfully with its expansionist schemes to abolish coal and steel tariffs and to outlaw cartels. But in the past six months, slackening European demand for coal, plus U.S. competition, has stacked up 30 million tons of unsold coal (TIME, March 2 et seq.). Fortnight ago, when the High Authority of the community ordered its members to restrict the production and import...
...preserve the strength of the faculty is the key task involved in any expansionist program. Any increase in the student body must be accompanied by growth of the faculty. The Program for Harvard College has allocated $5 million for the establishment of about 12 new Chairs. But the junior teaching staff--instructors and teaching fellows--must also grow, and it is to this increase that the opponents of expansion point with alarm...
...said that in the 1930's he was "very critical" of the Japanese government because of its expansionist policies in China, and associated with many people who shared his opposition to the Japanese conquest of Manchuria and the invasion of China...
With the selection of Charles W. Eliot as president of Harvard in 1869, these issues came to a head. Labeled by one M.I.T. historian as an "expansionist," Eliot attempted to form some sort of union between the Institute and the University...
Even with this profitable record, Inland has been reluctant to expand. But when bustling, 53-year-old Joe Block, grandson of Inland's founder, moved into the presidency 20 months ago, he brought some expansionist thinking with him. As vice president in charge of sales from 1936 to 1951 (with time out for a stint as steel expert on the War Production Board), he helped push yearly sales from $99 million to $519 million. As president, he turned his energy to improving efficiency, pushed Inland from eighth to seventh in the industry without adding a single open-hearth furnace...