Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Mr. Dulles, although very good at flushing France and Britain, is not quite so good in gaining neutral support. Thirdly we should like to question the sagacity of the shipment itself. For not only did the American arms shipments reveal to France the degree of support it may expect now, as in October of 1956, from its American ally, but its effect on Bourguiba can only be slight when we pause to reflect that Bourguiba probably remembers, if you do not, America's solid rejection of colonialism and gunboat diplomacy during the rise of Castillo Amaras in Guatemala...
...with him last week when he turned up in Boston's Symphony Hall to play Brahms's Piano Concerto No. i in D Minor. It was the kind of performance-thick-textured, solidly shaped, glowing with suffused light -that Graffman's audiences have come to expect of him. The great, blustery music of the first movement burst from the piano in finger-blurring but perfectly articulated gusts of sound; the contrasting adagio glided as serenely as a gull...
...rated capacity to make up for the 1956 steel strike. It is now down to 81% of capacity. The steel industry considers recession a dirty word, says flatly that it is undergoing a "mild cyclical adjustment" which is now stabilizing. Production may go down some more, but steelmen expect consumption to remain at current levels as businessmen live off inventories. The oil industry is also cutting back to pare its ultralarge, 283 million-bbl. inventory of oil stocks...
Home construction, which has been down all year, increased from a rate of 990,000 new homes annually to 1,000,000 annually last month. Builders expect easier credit to push the industry higher next year. Though plant expansion may drop as much as 7% in 1958, the new homes, coupled with big programs for new schools, highways, dams and bridges, are expected by F. W. Dodge Corp., the building industry's top experts, to nudge overall construction beyond $48 billion to another record next year. As for retail sales, store owners, who expected record Thanksgiving and Christmas business...
Crimson rebounding problems came to light in a scrimmage with Providence College last week, and the varsity can expect trouble under the boards tonight...