Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials in the Deans' Office expect to have the system in normal running order by the end of this week, with a full complement of monitors...
...their new constitution. Our military government ruled it out on the ground that it was incompatible with democracy. Amidst the awful shambles of the German cities such notions of "free enterprise" are as irrelevant as Communism is noxious. It was a very conservative Bavarian who wailed, "How do Americans expect us to rebuild these cities without planning...
...does, all the things which add up to enormous profits now may make for losses. The high-priced movies Hollywood is making this year may not be shown for as long as two years from now. And by then, even Hollywood's optimists expect that the present box-office rush will be subsiding. In short, Hollywood may find itself peddling high-priced products in a lower-priced market. That thought alone was enough to take some of the shine off this year's pot of gold...
...Government's cost-of-living index is now 125.5 (against the prewar norm of 100). With the upcoming price boosts, Governm.ent experts expect it to hit 130 before long. Industries where pay has been boosted have not yet knocked on Gordon's door for price boosts. But he feels that they will come...
Willys does not expect full-scale production till next May. It hopes the car does better than the $21,000,000 stock issue which helped finance it. Offered at $100 a share last June, the new Willys preferred stock was cold-shouldered by old Willys stockholders, then snubbed by the general public. Last week, still holding 75% of the new issue, the underwriters (Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and 45 other firms) gave up trying to float the stock at $100, decided to let it find its own price level. The price promptly bounced down to $60. Price bid at week...