Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor is helpless in France. Both union and management expect the government to solve their disputes for them instead of working out solutions with any basis in economic fact. Internal warfare between Socialists and Communists within the same trade unions injects politics even into everyday grievances...
Retail sales last week were 11% higher than a year ago, and consumers showed no signs of trimming their buying. The Federal Reserve Board reported that there are more people planning to buy cars, furniture and major household appliances this year than there were a year ago. And they expect to pay more for autos but less for other durable goods than last year's buyers. Consumers will spend an average of $2,700 for a new car v. $2,500 a year ago, while 1955's used-car buyers expect...
Furniture and household appliances will be bought by 28.5% of the public, v. 26.9% in 1954, but they plan to spend $50 less than last year's outlay. More consumers plan to buy on credit. This year, the FRB reported, 60% of the car purchasers expect to buy on time, v. 56% a year ago, and 54% of the prospective household-goods purchasers expect to use credit...
...WAGE will probably be boosted from 75? to $1 this summer (v. 90? proposed by Ike), but coverage will be extended to few, if any, additional occupations. For 1956 campaign oratory, big-city Democrats will pay lip service to the $1.25 that labor is demanding, but Congress' realists expect that $1 will turn out to be the top point of compromise...
...almost two weeks, brushed the bench splinters out of the seat of his pants, stepped to the plate and walloped a game-winning home run. Next afternoon, in his very next time at bat, rejuvenated Del Crandall lofted another one into the stands. But it was too much to expect the Dodgers to run up a losing streak of more than two. They ran off with the game...