Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government economists were not the only prophets of boom. "Outlook," a Wall Street investment weekly, declares jubilantly: "Profits in prospect for industrial corporations generally over the next few years are likely to make 1929 and 1937 look small by comparison." While the big days of 1929 are being made to look small by today's high-profit businessmen, while rising prices increase profit margins and the swollen net profits of wartime are surpassed in the rush to "get yours," who will be thinking of that day several years from now when the seemingly inexhaustible consumer demand created by wartime shortages...
Comparing the outlook of one year ago when the victory celebrations had just ended and all of us were expecting relatively easy times ahead, to the present numerous trouble spots on the international scene, President Conant suggested that men with "hard-boiled intellectual tempers" are likely "to lead as satisfying lives as any in the years to come. Moreover," he said, "I am firmly convinced that our chances for orderly development as a free nation depend on the number and influence of such...
Once you get back of those two, you're in a woodpile. After Garland's departure Friday, Harlow jumped six men into the Varsity locker room and invited them to scramble for jobs. With no results of the scramble available as yet, the outlook still seems muddled. Big Tom Fell, veteran of three years of college and naval football, seems to have the inside track at the moment, but he's not more than a step ahead of 200-pound George Hauptfuhrer, Willard McDaniel, Bob Kennedy (son of Ambassador Joe,) 1942 letterman Len Cummings, and Walt Coulson, 1944 star...
Such sales were the only bright spot in the Department's gloomy outlook. Although they were made at a Government loss of $11,700,000, they will bring in more than $100,000,000 in alcohol taxes, leaving a tidy Government profit of some $90,000,000. But even this was no bit of cheer for Anderson. "We will be criticized," he moaned, "at the next W.C.T.U. convention...
...that the Roman Catholic Church emphasizes the social concept of Christianity. That may have been what I was taught in Catholic parochial grammar school, high school and college, but what I got out of it was that the individual conscience is supreme. Society will be converted to a Christian outlook when the individuals who go to make it up are so converted...