Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase in Government debt which practically offsets the decrease in private debt since 1929 has not however restored 1929's 80 billion dollar national income. Nor does the President expect 1929's income to be approached until idle private capital is put to work. To be put to work much of it must be lent, increasing to new heights the entire debt of the national economic system. In short, Franklin Roosevelt's vision of prosperity is that it will be achieved only when U. S. debt (public and private) far exceeds that...
...Times, Gail Borden has been an ardent Guildsman, a great traveler, one of Lou Ruppel's best friends. He was born 33 years ago in Houston, a block from Aviator Howard Hughes (a close friend), is married to Betty Frey, daughter of a potent Chicago adman. They expect their first baby in April. His widowed mother holds about 7% of the Times's stock. Last week Managing Editor Borden had good reason but little time for his favorite hobby : sitting up all night to talk and bib with fellow-newsmen...
...FORTUNE Survey for November deduced that 24.3%, or 31,590,000 of the nation's 130,000,000 people expect to go to New York, 6.9% or 8,970,000 to San Francisco...
...apologist for Britain. Personable Mr. Eden had many an advantage for his job. Having quit as Neville Chamberlain's Foreign Secretary because he opposed the Chamberlain policy, he could talk easily to U. S. citizens who did not approve it. He also could expect respect for whatever he had to say, since Neville Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons last week that Mr. Eden was in the U. S. to express, unofficially of course, "the British view...
...pursued earnestly, the Committee's plan deserves attention and support as being one important means of strengthening the ties and traditions in which this country believes. But before it can expect a hearty reception, the Committee must give proof that its scheme is not merely visionary and that it has practical value...