Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope the day will come when the Admiralty will be able to invite ships of all nations to join the British convoys and in sure them on their voyages at a reasonable rate. . . . We hope . . . that by the end of October we shall have three times as many hunting craft at work as we had at the beginning of the war. . . . We hope that our means of putting down this pest will grow continually...
When a citizen of London hears stealthy footsteps in his pantry, finds his drawing room in flames, or stumbles over a body on the stairs, he knows precisely what to do. He picks up the nearest telephone, dials 999, and waits for help to come. For number 999 on London's exchange brings policemen, fire engines, ambulances...
...days earlier London's press campaign against Perth Control (TIME, Sept. 25) had come to a climax when the Evening Standard printed an editorial in which it accused the Ministry of harboring political jobholders without news experience. Said the Standard: "It is staffed to capacity three or four times over, but stuffed with incapacity. We are not fighting the big Hitler on the Rhine only to set up little Hitlers here...
...Banker Benson taxied to Seattle's Olympic Hotel for the 65th annual meeting of the American Bankers Association, of which he was president. To 2,500 banker delegates he sermonized: "We are meeting in the shadow of another great war. ... We must be prepared for whatever shocks may come...
...more definite than that were the other generalizations of the four-day gathering and boat trip. Bankers saw small chance of Government agencies taking over their functions, denounced Federal deficits, deplored the growth of the Government-inspired U. S. "gimme" attitude, felt that no long-run good would come to U. S. business from World War II. On one issue, however, they were with President Roosevelt. They wanted the neutrality act revised...