Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interstate Commerce Commission is just at present considering some very grave questions. There is no instant prospect of its deciding these questions, but nevertheless the impending events breed excitement in transportation circles...
...blockhouses (the French advance posts before the campaign began and the Riffs took them) were recaptured. For three days the French advanced, and then they rested and consolidated their positions. The French are not "out of the woods" yet-they are just getting into the mountains. They have small prospect of gaining a decision before winter...
...Prospect. The Council on assembling was faced with the problem of deciding a whole series of controversies including 1) the postal juridiction and munitions de-disposition of Mosul; 2) Polish pots in Danzig; 3) disposition of the unused portion of the Austrian loan and Austrian finances in general; 4) opium control; 5) minorities in Rumania and elsewhere, 6) international relief; 7) slavery...
...prospect for Edmund, son of Hugo, was not bright. First after his father's death he quarreled with his brother Hugo Hermann. As his share of his father's estate, he was given a controlling interest of the Nordstern Insurance Co. and of the Aga Automobile works. Recently he sold the former. Last week he got into serious difficulties with the latter. Short of cash, he could not pay his men's wages. He accused the banking interests of boycotting him. He offered $500,000 worth of stock to his employes, bargained with U.S. financiers for the sale...
...general attitude of the Powers is that a stable government well disposed and able to protect foreigners, their property and concessions must be established before they will give up their special rights and privileges under present treaties. Yet, the condition is such, according to most observers, that the prospect of developing a stable and powerful government because of increasing anti-foreign sentiment lies only in that government's securing the abrogation of those special treaty privileges...