Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...otherwise uneventful day, the President received an extended call at teatime from Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, and expressed his interest in the situation in the anthracite industry (see COAL), where a possible strike was in prospect...
...course, such funding of the debts as has been done or as is in prospect is on much more lenient terms* than Mr. Yoakum proposed. Recently, he went to Mr. Coolidge with another proposal for funding outstanding debts. Mr. Coolidge referred him to Senator Smoot who is a member of the Debt Funding Commission. Mr. Yoakum saw Mr. Smoot last week and this time his terms were very lenient: 79 years instead of his former 50 for payment. He would likewise have the first year's interest payment be paid on he 79th year, the second year...
...coal strike was the gloomy prospect which confronted the British public last week...
...Congressional fear of "interlocking directorates," however obsolete and however inconsistent with a policy of favoring railroad consolidations, is not yet allayed. The minority C. & O. stockholders were greatly cheered over this investigation of ancient history, and the proponents of the proposed Nickel Plate merger were proportionately disappointed at the prospect of further official delay...
...concern over the expense of conducting the war was manifest in official and business circles. It is now six weeks since the conflict began; and, judging from the appropriations asked by Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux (100,000,000 francs, covering a period of three months), there is no immediate prospect of defeating the Riff rebels. Meantime, the franc depreciates in value and finance reforms daily become more difficult...