Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should it happen, it would be a political thunderclap. Its boldness would be equalled only by the uncertainty of its effect, for it would be wholly unprecedented. Its folly would lie in staking much where nothing needs be staked; in prematurely disappointing many an ambitious man whose attachment Candidate Smith would need until November...
...What a to-do in the offices of the Great Trunk Line! A criminal, a nameless fiend, is, everyone feels almost certain, going to continue his series of express train demolishments by wrecking the night flyer. To the great dismay of the little group waiting around for something to happen, he does just this; then the president of the road, on the point of naming the dastard's name, is shot down by some mysterious hand...
...courtesy to stockholders of his Commonwealth Edison Co. at Chicago. The annual meeting was scheduled, but stockholders were not expected to attend, for as is usual with great corporations, the shareholders express their votes through proxies. Yet many of Mr. Insull's people wished to know what would happen at this meeting. He let them know directly and immediately, as though they were actually present, by radio-broadcasting the entire proceedings of the meeting...
Whether such a man can be nominated for the Presidency depends essentially upon what happens to his chief competitors. Curtis will go to the Republican convention with the twenty votes of Kansas and quite possibly with thirty more outside. What will happen to him then will depend on what has happened to the Hoover boom, the Lowden boom, the Dawes boom, and various other major and minor booms before the delegates assemble--how far short of a majority any single candidate remains, how available the engineers of the convention consider a candidate from the Middle West, strong in the Senate...
...been estimated that if anything happened to America's tin supplies about 25% of American husbands would go hungry, for the simple reason that tinned* food has robbed American women of their culinary art. The U. S. is effectually sealing itself in a tin can. Half the food Americans eat is tinned." That was to prove to his stockholders that their tin investments were based on a sound commodity. Then he let go with another toot: ''Americans are so busy and so imprisoned in their tinned lives that they never pause to consider what would happen...