Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Postern. If forced back into her Triangle, Poland can expect direct aid only through her southeast postern, the valley of the Dniester down to Rumania and the Black Sea. Clearly seen last week was the reason why Poland, when Hitler carved Czecho-Slovakia, stood watchful guard over those Carpathian peaks which frown down on the Dniester Valley. When Hungarians rushed in and seized the Carpatho-Ukraine (eastern tip of Czecho-Slovakia), Poles embraced them at their new common border, for Hungary is traditionally Poland's friend. Much depends for Poland on Hungary's continued neutrality, for only by marching around...
Drugs and Blood. Among the huge supplies of surgical materials stored up by the Government: 600,000 doses of tetanus antitoxin; 13,000,000 yards of gauze bandage; 225,000 stretchers. Over 100,000 donors in the London area, mostly women, are having their blood typed, expect to be ready for transfusions within a few minutes' notice. Blood of the universal Type Four, which can be safely used for all persons, has been stored in refrigerated banks, in special air-tight bottles...
...best peasants could look forward to another forcible "transplanting" to the East-a trip likely to make the trek of migratory farmers in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath seem like a quiet vacation. At worst they could expect another hurricane like the uprooting of the peasants in 1930, when 5,000,000 families had their property grabbed. Up to last week what happened to them had depended on one man-Joseph Stalin, who had always been held up to them as the friend of the toiling masses. Now it also depended on a second-Adolf Hitler...
...messages had accentuated the religious issue, and after Catholic Spain's new coolness became apparent, B. Mussolini began exchanging telephone messages with A. Hitler through the latter's Ambassador Hans-Georg von Mackensen. The official Fascist press began to boast about fresh plums which Italy might expect from the Axis arrangement (Djibouti, Tunisia, Suez). And an honest reflection of the Anglo-French determination was at last made public. If all this added up to anything, it meant clearing the road for B. Mussolini to slow A. Hitler down-if he could-perhaps to hang back if he couldn...
Most investment trusts buy securities that they expect to pay dividends and increase in price, and then wait for their hopes to come true. Manhattan's Phoenix Securities Corp., run by a group of hard-headed businessmen (its chairman, bald Wallace Groves, is under indictment in a mail fraud case not connected with Phoenix), favors another technique. It often looks up an anemic corporation, gives it a financial blood transfusion and an infusion of hardheaded management and takes its fee in the form of options on shares that prove valuable if the treatment is a success...