Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being underground. When vessels were sent through the Canal, the leaves could be raised in less than five minutes. Mechanical operation could be electrical with remote control. In fact, the leaves of the bascule-type bridge could be so camouflaged and with an imitation lock close by that I doubt very much whether the real lock could be located from the air. I suggested this to the Secretary of War, who referred it to the Chief of the Panama Canal Office, Washington, who said the "suggestion was interesting and would be brought to the attention of the proper officials...
...frankly question," said Michigan's Republican Senator Vandenberg, "whether we can become an arsenal for one belligerent without being the target for the other. I doubt if it is possible to be half in and half out of this...
...possible cranny was left in U. S. minds for any doubt that the unarmed British liner Athenia, bearing women & children, mostly neutrals, was torpedoed cold-bloodedly, without warning, 200 miles west of the Hebrides on Sunday evening, September...
Sales. The immediate blackout of theatres in France and England when War was declared automatically eliminated 40% of Hollywood's box-office income. Though some English theatres in outlying areas were already being reopened under emergency regulations and more were expected to follow, still in doubt were: 1) how current Hollywood pictures must be affected by Allied censorship, and 2) how war would affect the transmission of box-office receipts, some of which had not come from England last week...
...threat of a runaway commodity price inflation. An emergency had been proclaimed and there was small doubt that Franklin Roosevelt was prepared, if necessary, to fix prices and limit profits. What form this "might take was not yet settled. In the view of many a New Dealer most industry has been making passable profits on a mediocre volume of business (Federal Reserve Production Index was between 95 and 100); a larger volume should rather reduce than raise prices, for unit costs will fall. Anticipating Administration pressure if not a Presidential outburst against profiteering, copper and lead producers confined themselves...