Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal" is the spirit shown in surprising strength by the 135 people who have already reserved places on the CRIMSON SPECIAL bound for the Montreal and McGill hockey games over the weekend. More than five complete cars have been filled already, and Boston and Maine officials expect to add at least three or four more cars to the SPECIAL...
...come to discuss the Duke of Windsor's finances. Bills for debts he contracted as King are being rapidly settled in London, the biggest check being $600,000 to Cartier, but beyond that nothing has been done about the $125,000 per annum which the Duke continues to expect to receive, either from Parliament or from his family. Drawled the Duke to the Princess: "If the worst comes to the worst I can always pick up a living showing people around Schönbrunn; I know it so well...
Optimistic were the 1937 economic surveys of China's great Shanghai banks. They pointed out that New Year's is the day on which Chinese businessmen expect each other to have all outstanding debts settled, rejoiced that 1937's dread "settlement day" last week brought not a single Shanghai business or bank failure. As every Chinese shivers to recall, the 1935 and 1936 settlement days bristled with seemingly catastrophic bankruptcies, "but China, like England, always muddles through...
...flew sometimes as low as five feet above the 72 Hinman acres next to Union Air Terminal, Burbank, Calif. The Hinmans declared that they had sole rights to the "stratum of air superadjacent to and overlying" their land and "extending to such an altitude as the plaintiff may reasonably expect to occupy." Denied by lower courts, the suit was appealed to California's Supreme Court which last week held that there had been no effective precedent and that aircraft should be treated leniently as "a new and romantic industry." Concluded the Court: "The air, like...
...subsequent drought, which forced farmers to slaughter a vast number of animals they could not feed. Although Cudahy Packing increased its profits from $1,211,000 in 1935 to $1,815,000, President Edward A. Cudahy Jr. wrote his stockholders that results "did not come up to our expectations." Stock holders in Armour & Co., however, received more than they had learned to expect in the past-a dividend, the first since 1926. Armour's earnings were up from $9,349,000 in fiscal 1935 to $10,239,000 in fiscal 1936. On sales...