Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headquartered S.I.U., with some 70,000 members and A.F.L.-C.I.O. backing in the dispute, pledged "absolute support for Hal Banks," hinted at the possibility of a "massive blockade" of Canadian shipping in U.S. lake ports when the seaway shipping season opens April 10. Said a worried Canadian official: "We expect all hell to break loose...
...rising (see box), yet none so fast that they cause concern. Last week, as reports came out heralding important gains in industrial production, personal income, auto sales and housing, many businessmen and economists were no longer taking seriously the old textbook notion that a modern economy can scarcely expect three consecutive years of record auto production, or four straight years of plump times. Said Chief Presidential Economist Walter Heller: "The expansion should continue well into...
Pleasant Surprise. Businessmen everywhere are spending; American Telephone & Telegraph alone will invest more than $3 billion in plant and equipment in 1964. Many economic experts believe that capital budgets will rise more than the anticipated 10% this year-largely because they expect that the tax cut will inspire the U.S. public to spend more. The cuts will average out to $133 a year for each wage earner. It is still too soon to measure how much of his saving the consumer will spend, but early signs are hopeful...
...word about professorial metaphors: the reader does not expect flowing and melodious prose in a book of this kind, but he could request Woodworth not to write sentences like "Local companies need not espouse either horn of the dilemma..." And in making a very simple point on page 96, Woodworth uses an extended metaphor which includes cores, roots, flowers, fruit, tangents, shooting stars, and satellites...
...Expect for Bertrand Russell's short piece on the testban treaty, the rest of the articles are just as disgusting. Warren Boroson claims that Warren G. Harding was one-quarter Negro. O.K. So what? Psychiatrist Alfred Auerback worries about "fight mental health groups," because "educated people pay attention to their views. For example, in the February, 1962 Readers's Digest..." Publisher Ginzburg tells us about his courageous interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, someone who "proves it can happen here." And finally, a man named Bennett, clearly a member of the if-it-ain't-filthy-it-ain't-real school...