Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ease the strain, the British Broadcasting Corp. beamed special news and entertainment programs their way. The best news came from Sir Miles, who radioed that when the polar summer came in December, the John Biscoe would make another attempt to break through; if it failed, the expedition could expect a pickup by plane...
...modern artists could expect their work to be seen by so many; few, happily, were likely to see such odd interpretations of their work. Millions of Americans had already seen the reproductions in U.S. magazines; Upjohn hoped to keep the show traveling until some 10,000,000 people had seen the originals...
...find ourselves pleading our cause before strangers ... It isn't human to expect that in the few brief moments that we shall be before you you can understand our problems. Collective bargaining has been . . . repealed by the President. And if this union strategy works this time, collective bargaining will never come back...
Cortisone is even scarcer than ACTH. Merck & Co., who make it, in 37 tedious steps, from the bile of butchered cattle, expect to produce little more than 1½ ounces a week for the rest of the year. Last week it was announced that henceforth cortisone will be doled out to suitable hospitals and research institutions through a committee of the National Academy of Sciences. And Merck has stopped giving it away: the price now is $60 for a 300-milligram vial ($5,670 an ounce...
Since Ethel Merman has earned more than $1,000,000 in ten Broadway musicals (Lindsay & Grouse are at work on an idea for a new one), making a living is presumably not a major worry. One of her friends, puzzled by her offstage venture, asked, "What do you expect to get out of your radio show?" Merman answered shortly: "A sponsor...