Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost as soon as the North Atlantic Treaty, in its blue goatskin binding, was safely tucked away in the State Department archives, eight of the signers went one step further. They asked Secretary of State Dean Acheson if they could now expect arms from the U.S. No facts or figures were mentioned, though rough estimates put the first-year cost somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion. Acheson promised to see what he could...
Last summer, when Kostov returned from a trade mission to Moscow, he still talked about the magnificent assistance Bulgaria could expect from her Soviet ally. But he soon found out that trade with Russia is a one-sided affair. He began to rebel against the slow, deliberate sacrifice of Bulgaria's economy to Russia. "He followed a policy which lacked sincerity and friendship toward the U.S.S.R.," said the Communists' bill of particulars against Kostov. "Comrade Kostov was moved by a conscious individualism [toward] unhealthy ambitions...
...Europe are already sold out for the summer. Though the rebuilt lie de France, absent from the Atlantic run for eight years, will not make its first trip for three months, it is already sold out until October. The airlines, reinforced with new equipment, are booked solid too; they expect to fly 150,000 tourists abroad at $630 (to London) to $808 (to Rome) round trip...
Laski will discuss "The Role of Labor Unions in Politics," after which a panel of experts will interrogate him. Although Forum members have sent a letter of protest to the School Committee they do not expect a reversal of the decision and are continuing with the Sanders plan...
Polk, with Constantine Poulos of The Nation, took off from LaGuardia Field Tuesday. He does not expect to return to this country before May. The trial, originally scheduled for early January, was unexpectedly postponed until tomorrow by the Greek government...