Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When President Roosevelt signed the bill in 1944, neither Government nor education officials knew quite what to expect. Some thought that only about 500,000 veterans would take advantage of the program. Others predicted an inevitable lowering of academic standards. Educator Robert Hutchins declared the whole idea could be "a threat to American education." The results made a mockery of the cynics and alarmists alike. On campus after campus, whole new communities sprang up-row upon row of trailers, barracks, and Quonset huts, crammed with books, babies and as eager a crop of students as U.S. higher education had ever...
Atomic Ship. The shipping industry is already responding to the supertanker success formula: the bigger and faster the ship, the fatter the profit. Aided by the biggest shipping subsidies in peacetime history, long-hungry U.S. shipyards are taking on more and more supership orders, and expect volume to increase. The Maritime Administration estimates that "block obsolescence" of war-built...
Indeed, plane producers showed 1955 profits totaling only 2.5% to 4.6% of sales v. 6.7% for all manufacturing. But the investigators considered this a fair relationship. Said the subcommittee report: "It is not to be expected that the airframe industry, which is almost 100% Government-financed, with low private-capital investment, and large plants plus the large amount of working capital supplied by the Government, should expect an earning power comparable to business with heavy capitalization and the risk of commercial sales and inventories...
Sometimes they were effective, sometimes not. It warns airmen who carry "shark knives" not to expect much from them. Large sharks are almost invulnerable to such weapons...
ITALIAN MOTORSCOOTERS are making big push into U.S. markets. Two biggest sellers, Lambretta and Vespa, expect to sell 32,500 scooters (around $350-$400) in U.S. this year...