Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready to proceed with the full $3,300,000,000 program. But there were important limitations. The U. S. would not splurge on new public buildings; probably not more than six new post offices would be erected throughout the land. States & cities with hopelessly unbalanced budgets could expect neither gifts nor loans for public works. While self-liquidation was not a prerequisite for each project, every dollar spent must represent sound capital investment and make the U. S. a better, more comfortable land...
...other semifinalists were beefy Cyril Tolley, champion in 1920 and 1929. who has lately done most of his golfing in the U. S., and a capable Scotch player named Thomas Arundel Bourn, 23 years younger than Scott. When Dunlap lost, everyone knew what to expect: Tolley would beat Bourn and then take the final. Instead, playing on a course he distrusts because it imposes eccentric penalties on his long drives, Tolley lost to Bourn in a tight match, after 20 holes. Next day, Scott made matters easy by piling up a 5-hole lead in the morning. In the afternoon...
...stockbroker, cornered the market by buying every available Cattleya Gigas Alba var Firmen Lambeau in Britain. From a stray orchid of the original Cattleya Gigas Alba, Mr. Lager acquired the piece of his own plant that flowered so lushly last week. There are seven bulbs on this. Soon he expects to have two plants in two pots. Only once a year does an orchid bloom. Not for generations can ordinary citizens expect to see the flowers of Alba...
Senator Glass publicly admitted that this last provision was the only good thing he could see in deposit guarantee. He and many another expect that 1) once deposit guarantee is in effect, the public will withdraw its money from "uninsured"' banks, so 2) all banks will be forced to come in. therefore 3) by July 1936 all U. S. banks will belong to the Federal Reserve System...
...that he was unworthy. On the contrary, every turn of his career provides a text for a sermon on honesty, thrift, diligence, perseverance, kindliness, charity. But- and it may well be the fault of his biographers-Cyrus Curtis has never been brought as vividly to life as one might expect of a man whose properties were capitalized at $40,000,000, did better than $100,000,000 business...