Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these bases of value that the steel industry is now showing its earnings and paying its dividends." Citing National Steel's own 1,000,000-ton expansion program, which will cost $650 million, Weir pointed out that his company could expect to sell only $400 million worth of securities to finance the job. The additional $250 million must be saved out of earnings during the next five years-at the rate of $50 million yearly-but steel prices are not high enough to do so, Weir said...
...liner. Said Sir Miles last week: "I was tired of being the whipping boy of some politicians. You can either have a competitive airline using the best available equipment, or you can have a shopwindow for British aircraft. But if you choose the second alternative, you must not expect to make a profit." For too long, said he, Britain's aircraft industry has been "looking too hard at the stars and tripping over its own feet," has done too much "talking about tomorrow's jam instead of concentrating on today's bread and butter. The time...
...timid new hotel chambermaid is warned to expect trouble from the countess, for Lucrezia Sanziani is dotty, penniless and old-a kind of walking Roman ruin. Fresh from Rome's Trastevere slums, Carmela, the young chambermaid, is prepared to quake at the countess' least whim. Instead, she finds herself cast as a confidante of yesteryear in the old lady's wandering mind. Each day, in the afterglow of the Roman twilight, the countess stares deeply into her Florentine silver-gilt hand mirror and conjures up a hallucinated remembrance of loves past...
...same men will come back in the 100, where the Elis again rate a slight edge, especially since they will be swimming in their own pool. Aubrey holds the world record of 49.0 for the event, but can expect trouble from Gideonse (49.7), Dyer (49.7), Moore (50.5), and Dave McIntyre of North Carolina State, who did a 48.8 relay leg in the Easterns two weeks...
...keep Nixon as his running mate. The President replied: "Well, I am not going to be pushed into corners here and say-and right now, at this moment-say what I would do in a hypothetical question involving about five ifs. And I don't think you should expect me to. I do say this: I have no criticism of Vice President Nixon to make, either as a man, associate, or as my running mate on the ticket...