Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look, for a time, as if the ticket were far wrong. From November, 1919, to May, 1920. Lowden's candidacy gained ground at an impressive pace. Delegates were lined up. Alliances were formed. The campaign had money, organization, and the bright prospect of success to drive it on. By the middle of May Lowden had the promise of more than two hundred delegates on the third ballot, with only Leonard Wood apparently capable of giving him a battle...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Last week he could suck his eternal plump cigar contentedly and even smugly over a sheaf of treasury reports. They showed that, with less than a month to go before the fiscal year ends on March 31, there is every prospect that the daring jugglery embodied in Mr. Churchill's present budget (TIME, April 18) will indeed enable him to make ends meet at his estimated total...
Result: The Italian Minister at Vienna, Signor Giacinto Auriti immediately left for Rome to inform Il Duce of precisely what had occurred. Rumor visioned a diplomatic break between Italy and Austria, but more likely loomed the prospect that Il Duce would administer to Austria a tongue lashing similar to that which he indulged in against Germany when Foreign Minister Doktor Gustav Stresemann flayed the Italianization of Lower Tyrol...
...Saturday Evening Post does not pay for the cost of paper alone. But the $8,000 that the magazine charges for a full-page advertisement in black and the $11,500 for four-color pages yield profits which financiers are beginning to exploit. Each reader may be a prospect for the sale of such securities, just as almost every user of electricity in the U. S. has been offered investments in his "home" public utility...
...largest piece of foreign financing in immediate prospect is another Australian Government loan, for a sum not yet announced by J. P. Morgan & Co., Australia's bankers, but reported to be between $50,000,000 and $75,000,000. The bonds, which will be the eleventh Australian issue brought out in the U. S. market, will bear 5% interest and will be sold in the neighborhood...