Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Tarafa, the Cuban railway magnate who wants to tax American sugar companies on their private Cuban railroads and ports, went to New York to confer with the sugar interests. He conferred and issued several statements that a compromise was being reached. Others cast doubt on this prospect. If a satisfactory solution is not reached the State Department will be called upon to decide whether the Tarafa railroad bill,* now in the Cuban Congress, is detrimental to the rights of Americans who have capital invested in the Cuban sugar industry...
France has in prospect a record crop, and M. Chéron, her Minister of Agriculture, has predicted that imports of wheat will not be necessary this year at all, if wheat flour is mixed with that of other cereals. The French yearly ration of wheat is estimated at 85,000,000 quintals; production in Continental France is estimated at 79,000,000 quintals, with 20,000,000 more from the French North African harvest...
...operators were unwilling to adjourn without prospect of renewing the Conference. At their suggestion the Conference adjourned until the next day, to give both sides " time to think it over...
Weatherbee is a Nova Scotian, 50 years of age, son of Sir Robert Weatherbee, former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. He set out on April 23 to prospect for an overland route from Burma to Peking, "through country never before traversed by white...
...does not wear out. Its parts are singularly constant, too. You have to replace bulbs, but a bulb will last for a year or more. Batteries wear out, but the radio companies have no monopoly on batteries. The companies are confronted by the fact that they have no prospect of a steady income of money from radios over a long period...