Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentine press ignored the fact that the U.S. was also heavily involved in the meat deal; they felt secure enough in their relations with Great Britain. After the war the United Nations would need even more food for the starving millions of Europe. It was a rosy outlook...
Four days later Laski, who writes a syndicated column for the Chicago Sun, reported his reactions to Messrs. Johnston & Benton. He was still "bewildered" by their blindness to what he considered the inevitable direction in which the world is moving. "Alongside their outlook," he wrote, "Churchill can really only be described as a left-wing radical...
...Outlook. Since General Vandegrift's Marines made their frontal assault on Guadalcanal, the U.S. has learned much about island warfare. The new tactics are to surround the Jap bases in overwhelming force and in combined operation to squeeze the life out of them. Though the capture of Munda was somewhat behind schedule, the Japs were left no secondary retreats, would soon be cleaned up. Gen eral Vandegrift, with his spearhead of Amphibious Marines, looked forward to future operations conducted by "all of us, a highly cooperative team...
...into Basic words. Good books in Basic now ready for reading: The Three Signs (short stories by Hawthorne, Irving, Poe), George Bernard Shaw's Arms & The Man, the New Testament (the Old is to come), The Republic of Plato (done by Richards), Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, The Outlook of Science (selections from J. B. S. Haldane's writings...
Outside of the good overall earnings, there were few surprises and little to cheer about. Biggest surprise: a good many utilities, whose outlook for increased earnings was supposedly hopeless-their gross business is stable, their costs, on the rise-managed to squeak out a little more net income. Most notable were Wendell Willkie's ex-company. Commonwealth & Southern, with a six months' net of $7,331,000, its best showing in more than ten years; and New York's huge, over-bonded Consolidated Edison, whose $5,869,000 net for the second quarter was almost 25% above...