Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These 125-foot, 6,000-horsepower, 4-8-8-2 wheel arrangement, single expansion articulated engines, distinctive of this railroad, have an enclosed cab that puts enginemen right up front so they can see more easily what's around a curve. Smokestack at other end from cab could give...
But, said Price, one essential ingredient is missing: the willingness of U.S. investors to risk their dollars on industry's expansion. They are hanging back. Of the $26.5 billion which U.S. industry spent on expansion in 1947, said Price, less than 4.7% (only $1.25 billion) came from stock sales...
The new faculties taxed Laval's space. Enrollment (1,294 in 1936) jumped last year to more than 3,000 full-time students. But there was no room for expansion in the tight little blocks below Quebec's Citadel. Quebec's Archbishop Maurice Roy, World War II...
Von Stade pointed out that the increased student expenses this year would permit little expansion of the scholarship program. A few man, however, have already been notified of new aids for this term.
Said the Bulletin: "The increase in installment credit this year is of special significance because it is taking place notwithstanding the fact that the output of consumers' durable goods is no longer growing. Further expansion [of installment credit] . . . can only add more purchasing power to the already swollen spending...