Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Secretary Wallace's hands the farm bill puts a three-pronged pitchfork with instructions to try to toss farm prices high up on to the wagon of better days. No doltish hired man, the Secretary is expected to start his price-pitching slowly and easily, watching his aim, studying his effects, conserving his power. Farmers who expect to see a sharp overnight rise in commodity values are ill-informed...
These items enter into the rehabilitation of the beer manufacturing industry but do not include large secondary effects from beer retailing. Hotels and restaurants have reason to expect increased income with beer sales. Other drinking places must be built and remodelled. All must have new equipment. Items for which demand was last week reported high...
...Symphony. When Violinist Albert Spalding started to plow out his career, he reversed the route Gabrilowitsch had taken. In the U. S. Spalding found that it was a handicap to be the handsome, athletic-looking son of a rich U. S. sporting-goods manufacturer. Audiences, he said, seemed to expect him to come on the platform in a baseball suit. Albert Spalding packed up his violin, went to Russia, made his name there. But throughout their careers Spalding and Gabrilowitsch have had one rare quality in common: no amount of success has spoiled their selfless, unaffected devotion to music...
Readers who smiled over Author Linklater's Juan in America (TIME, March 4, 1931), might expect another picaresque comedy from him, but The Men of Ness is as different from his first book as a Soglow cartoon from a Rivera fresco. Serious this time, Author Linklater has written a carefully primitive, saga-like chronicle about the Vikings who once harried and inhabited his native Orkney...
...logical to expect that with the removal of the Department of Hygiene from Wadsworth House to the present quarters on Holyoke Street, the improvement in equipment would see a like change in the service rendered. To the undergraduate who finds it necessary to consult the University physicians, the more comprehensive office hours, extending with little interruption through the day, and the comfortable waiting rooms with the February sixteenth issue of "Time" are the only evidences of such a change...