Word: expand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn the tide. Most anxious bankers hailed it as the "most constructive step" yet taken in the Depression. Conservative Republican Senators, shying away from its inflationary aspect, played down the printing press idea for political reasons, guessed that the Reserve Board might after all have no occasion actually to expand the currency...
...easy to see why rising tariffs have prolonged and accentuated many of the war-time maladjustments between supply and demand. When the world is divided by trade barriers, a new duty or an increase in an old one may lead an industry to expand behind the tariff, despite the fact that the demand for its output at a profitable price does not equal the productive capacity already in existence, but located in other countries. Maladjustments thus aggravated by tariffs, did not directly precipitate the collapse of prosperity but they did weaken the economic position of many countries and reduce their...
...Auburn was ready to expand. Mr. Cord, looking for more speed, had had his eye on Frederick Samuel Duesenburg, who was then building mostly racing cars at his Indianapolis plant. Speed king and a fine designer, Duesenburg was no businessman; his company was nearly bankrupt. Cord got control of it by an exchange of Auburn stock. Another thing he wanted was Lycoming Manufacturing Co. which supplied power plants to Auburn. Long builders of automotive, marine, industrial engines, Lycoming was being marked for its new airplane engine. Cord got Lycoming in 1927 the same way he got Duesenburg. For two years...
...will not interfere with Japan's activities in Manchuria. "The position of Manchuria is such that both Russia and Japan could use it to great advantage, Russia because it needs a seaport which is not ice-bound in the winter months, and Japan because it has no place to expand on the continent of Asia and Manchuria is the most accessible region for this expansion...
...knows what trouble is both in & out of the office. Once it lost a $4,000,000 patent infringement suit to Magnavox Co., and last year William Carl Grunow was ousted from the presidency by his partner Bertram James Grigsby. Last week unGrunowed Grigsby-Grunow, undaunted, planned to expand, acquire Columbia Phonograph Co. by an exchange of stock. Columbia owns the U. S. properties of Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. which was merged with Gramophone Co. Ltd. in April to form Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd. Columbia's properties, which will pass to Grigsby-Grunow, include U. S. factories where are made...