Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late February, the man who is President of Italy until 1962 will call on President Eisenhower. What will he say? Last week, Giovanni Gronchi answered that question in a surprisingly outspoken interview with U.S. Correspondent Edmund Stevens. If State Department officials expect that the invitation to the U.S. will check Signor Gronchi's discomforting leaning to the left in Italian politics, Stevens reported in the Christian Science Monitor, they are in for a "serious shock." Point by point, Gronchi ticked off the advice he intends to give...
...Navy does not expect all its balloons to land in the U.S. Many will go down in the Atlantic from Labrador to Cuba. They will range en route as far north as Alaska and as far south as Hawaii. Wherever they wander, they will report winds, temperature and air pressure in regions almost unknown to meteorologists, and will give better understanding of the high-speed winds that dominate the airways where jet liners will soon be flying...
Springfield "always has good divers," said Crimson coach Hal Ulen, but they can expect some of the best local competition in years from not only Greg Stone but Duane Turner, whose performance at Annapolis last Saturday shows he is gaining surety and poise off the board...
...home-improvement business in 1956 by upping the maximum Title I (repair and modernization) loan from $2,500 to $3,500 and the maximum repayment period from three to five years. Home improvement alone, guessed one builder, might be a $10 billion industry this year. Housing men also expect more higher-priced houses will be built. Said one builder: "People can afford to buy better houses, and we have had to raise standards and prices after ten years of building cheeseboxes...
...would not offset the bigger cost. But huge oil tankers, which turn around fast, would find atomic power profitable. If the Maritime Administration is ready to subsidize atomic tankers as replacements for all the big, U.S.-owned tankers that will become obsolescent by 1965, the atomic-propulsion industry can expect $3 billion in orders from shipbuilders alone...