Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough segment of U.S. labor was out of hand. Last week the nation's merchant fleet was tied up tight, the nation's ports were dead. This week there was some reason to expect a settlement of the biggest maritime strike in history, but only on labor's terms. The little moral authority which the Administration had left was wrecked...
...slow-acting insulin solutions, developed by Denmark's Dr. H. C. Hagedorn, allow diabetics to get along on less frequent injections (often only one a day). A.D.A. President Joseph Barach summed up: with insulin plus careful (but ample) diet, "the diabetic patient can now expect to live an almost normal life...
...denominations) were old China hands who talked about "going home." One such was William Carlaw Chapman, 66, who was returning with his wife to their ruined church at Pengshui and the 3¼ million impoverished Chinese in that area of west central China. Like most of his colleagues, he expected to find changes. "Once our white faces and 'high noses' were enough," he said. "Now we will have to be known for what we are." Said Willi C. Newbern, 46, who first went to China in 1925: "I expect there will be a certain disillusionment with Christianity. Missionaries...
...passenger, 400-mile-an-hour-plus transport whose military prototype is now in the air (see cut): 5½-hour coast-to-coast service (best time now: almost ten hours); 2½-hour flights between New York and Miami (present time: 5½ hours). Pan Am does not expect to get the first of the six Rainbows ordered ($1,200,000 apiece) till late next year. But it may take the slow-moving CAB that long to answer Pan Am's shrewd request...
While students miles away in the University of Missouri are living in trailer camps and sleeping there deep in the gymnasium, authorities here confidently expect "shrinkage" in registration figures to ease present chaotic housing conditions to a satisfactory level. Within a matter of weeks, they predict, students temporarily bunking in the Athletic Building will be allotted dormitory space...