Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prices of some other farm products were still under pressure. Main reasons: last year's rich harvests, poor exports. A Government economist told the Senate Agriculture Committee last week that farmers can expect a further 5% drop in income in 1953. (Farm income last year was down 4% from 1951.) Wheat continued its recent slump last week. Corn is selling for 15% .less than a year ago. Cotton has fallen 30% since April 1951. Butter has fallen below support prices...
Brownell's line on the delegates was so good that on two key roll calls his forecast was only two votes off. He had such confidence in his information that when one state delegation cast a vote he did not expect, Brownell, watching on television, told associates that the delegation must not have understood the question. In a few minutes, the delegation's chairman called Brownell's room to say that the question had been misunderstood and the vote would be corrected...
...Quonset-hut courtroom in Seoul last week, an eight-man court-martial meted out punishment: two years in prison and dismissal from the service for 2nd Lieut. James D. Goff. Goff smiled in relief: he had had good reason to expect a much heavier sentence. Last December, with three Negro enlisted men, he had entered a Korean's house, presumably looking for stolen property, and had pistol-whipped to death an innocent Korean Presbyterian minister who protested...
...short, nothing new, and no readiness to give ground on the issue of forcible repatriation of Communist P.W.s. Apparently Chou himself did not expect his peace offer to be taken seriously, for he went on: "If the new American administration . . . intends to enlarge and extend the Korean war, we are thoroughly prepared to fight it out with the aggressors to the last." To which Mao Tse-tung added: "For any amount of years...
...reform movement. Canada in 1950 was all set to recognize the Chinese Communist government, and the Korean war upset the plan. Canadian diplomats now admit that Canada "would have looked awfully foolish and inept if we'd gone through with recognition." They also confess that they did not expect the Chinese Reds "to be as vicious as they became" in Korea. But disillusioned though they have been on some scores, Canada's China policymakers still look with cool distaste on the Nationalists in Formosa, still cling to their passive attitude toward Chinese Communism...