Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fear that the present good trade will not continue and reluctance to make commitments at still higher prices, how ever, are not had signs at this phase of the business cycle. So long as a conservative attitude dominates the general business community, the prospect of continued healthy advance remains. This attitude promises restraint of undue expansion and therefore sustains the belief that the present good business will not prove short-lived. In manufacturing industries the physical volume of production is now slightly greater than it was at the end of 1919 or the beginning of 1920: but if allowance...
...this movement to endure. As a result, prices of shares on the Stock Exchange have proved irregular at high levels, with speculative reactions and rallies of only day to day significance. Meanwhile, gilt-edged bonds have proved sluggish, and have shown an unmistakable tendency to decline under the prospect, already realized in some measure, of higher money rates. Weaker bonds, however, have risen rather than declined in many instances, owing to their improved position following better corporate net earnings. French government dollar issues have proved strong...
...Mexican election, which in prospect is bloodless...
...prospect of another Juliet- this time from Belasco's workshop. (P.17) Baron Kato's political enemy, General Oshima, who says: "World peace is best maintained when nations are armed to the hilt...
...sense will eliminate blindness. Since we are anxious to give credence, we can a least promise in a "suspension of disbelief" while awaiting the verdict of investigation. And it can be suggested that, even if the scientist should be excused as a quack, he may at least have the prospect of making a living in another way. For a certain boy, on whom a pig's eye was grafted recently, although unable to see clearly has entered a career on the vaudeville stage, and, with the pig as his co-partner, is "doing nicely...