Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite this activity, few soldiers on Cyprus seemed to expect action. Said a battle-seasoned British paratroop officer: "It's hard for us to tell out here, that's true, but I'd say the thinking is about ten to one against...
...most immediately threatening web was that binding key Suez Canal technicians to the old Frenchrun company. After Nasser said yes to Menzies, the French government announced that the company would not pull out its foreign pilots until the talks were over. "But," added a Foreign Ministry spokesman, "we cannot expect them to stay indefinitely...
With the budget for arms-buying set tentatively at $2.3 billion in the next three years, the Germans also expect to gain much political influence through the judicious placing of orders-and other countries are already scrambling for them. The British are trying hard to get the Germans to buy Centurion tanks instead of U.S. M-475. The Turks and Italians are competing for ammunition orders. But the biggest purchases will be in the U.S. Last week a mission headed by Dr. Fritz von Twardowski returned from a two-week shopping mission in the U.S. with tentative agreements...
...appliances and furniture on credit, in addition to paying $59 a month on a three-bedroom home, says that he has no idea how much interest he is paying or when he will be out of debt. Shrugs MacDonald: "I'm not too worried about it. I expect my income to increase steadily through the years, and I don't have any worry about a depression...
TRAILER DWELLERS now number 3,000,000 in U.S., and "mobilehome" builders expect 1956 sales to go up 15% over last year's record $435 million. Reasons for the large jump: more livable trailers (air conditioning, built-in bars, etc.), high rents, national wanderlust...