Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over 300,000 in all) contain names that cannot be found in Who's Who or in any other standard reference work. TIME'S record for getting foreign names spelled right has been none too spotless, but as this tailor-made directory moves toward completion, we expect to do better...
...voice, Decontrol Board Chairman Roy Thompson let the big price secret out through the nation's radios. Livestock, meat, soybeans, cottonseed, flaxseed and their by-products would go back under controls on a date to be fixed by the OPA. Dairy products and most grains would not. "I expect," concluded Chairman Thompson, red-eyed from weariness, "that we are going to hear plenty of criticism...
...foreign policy, are fearful of being left to face Russia alone. London's leftist New Statesman & Nation counseled caution: "Mr. Bevin would be well advised to remember that... his bid for American support in Palestine has failed spectacularly and left us far worse off. ... Can he expect any better results elsewhere in the Middle East...
...supply men to sit on the Government's "control board" supervising nationalization. Dryly, the Economist explained the reason why: "It may clear a man's mind wonderfully to know that he is to be hanged in the morning, but it shows some want of tact to expect him to tie the noose." After months of scrapping and haggling with the steel industry, Minister of Supply Wilmot announced sharp curtailment of the authority of the "control board": henceforth it will supervise renovation of the steel industry but will not plan for nationalization...
TIME Correspondent Dave Richardson cabled: "Calcutta's three millions will take some time to be convinced that terrorism is really over. They act as though they had been through a terrific bombing and expect another soon. Nine out of ten business houses and shops which survived plundering are still closed tightly...