Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confusing was this mélange that White House Secretary Stephen Early afterwards undertook to clarify it. In doing so, he volunteered the most revealing statement yet made on the subject. The President, said Mr. Early, has not decided whether to expand Rearmament at all. This amounted to saying that U. S. citizens lately have been gazing at nothing but a huge trial balloon. Not even this, however, was the most astonishing thing in the Administration's Rearmament fuss...
Will Keith Kellogg, 78, makes breakfast food for children, but he has more than a commercial interest in them. Eight years ago he established the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Mich., gave it $46,000,000 to improve children's health & happiness, soon decided to expand the Foundation's work so it could help grownups, too. By last week the people it had helped were helping themselves so enthusiastically that even Will Kellogg was astonished...
Tending to support Mr. Hazelett's ideas last week was a survey made by the Tax Research Institute of America at the request of the Senate committee. Sample findings: 82½% of firms questioned would expand if tax laws provided deductions or credits for expansion; such expansion would cause 74% of these firms to increase employment...
...Drinker brothers idea was to use a suction pump to expand a paralytic's chest. Emerson made several improvements; he introduced bellows instead of a suction pump, a much quieter motor, and several conveniences for both nurse and patient...
...shoe's inventor, 54-year-old, Syrian-born Cobbler James Fikany. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., Cobbler Fikany acknowledged the happy result. Deluged with orders from the U. S., Canada and England, he proudly signed articles for a $250,000 corporation. His backers hoped to expand the little Fikany business into an enterprise for Rochester's 2,500 unemployed shoe workers...