Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expect, as he had in the days of Coolidge, that prosperity would go on forever. He hoped, however, that a nation as productive as the U.S. would not have to suffer the kind of humiliating poverty it knew during the last depression. He realized that the country might be at war with Soviet Russia within a decade, a year, or-if an "incident" occurred-within a month. But experience had toughened him; he catalogued the Russians with death and taxes, put his faith in the Marshall Plan, crossed his fingers and hoped for the best...
...some kind of after life ("I believe the spirit goes to heaven and will see members of his family later"; "I suppose there is something-won't be gold streets, though"). Of those who said that they believe in heaven, more than three-fifths coolly admitted that they expect to go there...
...Force, the weather is of great and far-reaching concern. A strategic air fleet, taking off for destination X, will need to know what weather to expect 5,000 miles and 20 hours ahead. Last week the Air Force acquired one of the world's leading meteorologists, Dr. Sverre Petterssen of M.I.T...
...bounce as a jack-in-the-box, the booming U.S. toy industry this week was working around the clock to fill the biggest Christmas stocking in history. With 24 million new customers born since 1940, and plentiful materials for the first time since war's end, the toymakers expect to ring up record 1948 retail sales of $300 to $400 million, at least 20% above...
Pollees will also be asked whether or not they expect to exercise their franchise Tuesday...