Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expect to find the capitalist in your shop. . . . Look for him on the golf course. It is there that he will tell you that without him, the industry could not function...
...gross earnings of U.S. films, Movie Czar Eric Johnston announced that Britain would get no more of them. Cinemoguls, meeting in a 3½-hour session with Johnston, angrily charged that the tax was confiscatory. "If the British want American pictures," said Johnston, "they shouldn't expect to get a dollar's worth for a quarter...
...grisly news of the eucalyptus grove quickly spread through a land which had learned to expect an eye for an eye. Panicky Jews prepared to flee from Natanya. British troops grew sullen, angry, dangerous. That night, in Tel Aviv, British soldiers on foot and in armored cars lashed out in an unsoldierly demonstration. They smashed windows, beat Jews, fired Sten guns into a crowded bus. Five Jews were killed, 15 wounded. Next day, at the funeral for the five dead, mourners and police clashed again. The toll: 33 Jews injured. Said one resident of Natanya: "This cancels...
...sugar-growers expect a surplus in a few years, the bill tied sugar prices to the cost of living, thus extending a form of parity to sugar-growers. Sugar prices could not go down, no matter what the supply till everything else did too. Industrial users estimated that this will keep prices about 3? a pound higher than in an uncontrolled market. Bakers figured that it would add $30,000,000 a year to the nation's bill for cake alone...
...biggest job is in the south-east corner of the Yard, where three steam shovels are still excavating for the new undergraduate library. Hindered in their efforts by the recent rainstorms which transformed the pit into a small sized lake, the workmen expect to complete excavation within two weeks...