Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then trouble flared up where Sam Rayburn should least expect it-deep in the heart of his own 20-man Texas delegation. The pro-Ike mail from home was building up tremendous pressure, and much as they hated to leave their old leader, many Texans were thinking of defection. Their dilemma was compounded by another Texan, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who warned Mister Sam that for Texans to vote for anything less than the toughest possible labor bill would ruin them back home. Inevitably, word filtered out, and one by one the Texans made their decisions...
Many stocks, including some electronics, regained much of the lost ground before week's end. Wall Street took the break in stride, cautious but unfrightened. With prospects ahead of an economic spurt once the steel strike ends, most Wall Streeters expect the averages to break through the 700 mark before year...
...thrown out of court. And his backwoods segregationist supporters might yet descend on the city in force when the integrated schools open this week. Said Little Rock's able Police Chief Eugene Smith, canceling all leaves: "We don't know what to expect. But we're going to be ready...
...imported more than it exported last June. Excluding military goods, exports dipped to $1,348,000,000 and imports rose to $1,369,000,000, up a walloping 33% from the year-ago level. Reporting the figures last week, the Commerce Department warned the U.S. to expect several more months of trade imbalance. In 1959 the U.S. will show an export surplus, but just barely. Exports, which dropped from a record $19.5 billion in 1957 to $16.3 billion last year, will slide to an estimated $16 billion. Imports will go up from $12.8 billion to about $15 billion...
...biggest threat is Russia's Aeroflot, the world's largest commercial airline. Its 1,600 planes fly 350,000 route miles, serve 500 airports from Kamchatka to London. Airmen expect that one of the points of discussion between President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev will be yet another jump for Aeroflot: the right to carry passengers to and from...