Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naval have reached totals which made President Hoover blink in astonishment. For this year he found that estimated national defense expenditures of the U. S. would be $741,000,000. Great Britain was spending only $547,000,000, France $523,000,000. What concerned him more was the prospect of increases next year and the next and the next, mounting to a total of $803,000,000 in 1933. Looking back he found that an average of $266.000.000 yearly had kept the Army & Navy going before the War. Announced the President...
...Brown and his four assistant postmasters general, told them something had to be done to reduce these ever-increasing shortages, to put the postal service on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. What concerned the President chiefly was the sudden leap in this year's deficit and the prospect of similar shortages to come. The Post Office Department has not been on a paying basis since Frank H. Hitchcock was Postmaster General (1909-13). In 1924 the deficit was 13 millions; in 1928, 32 millions. Fiscal 1929's "operating" deficit was 95 millions, to which...
...That afternoon they raced the Thames Rowing Club, won by a length and a quarter. They were later to be presented to Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, the Lord Mayor of London, King George. Browne & Nichols is almost exclusively a Harvard preparatory school. Harvard men last week rejoiced at the prospect of a sequence of Harvard rowing victories after the Henley champions matriculate...
...ancient custom that all diplomatic matters be conducted by foreign envoys at the U. S. State Department or the White House, not with the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or any other non-state person. Since Sir Esme is dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make a popular appeal for his country over the grim neutrality...
France and Fascist Italy, with whom the Baldwin government had been on the best of terms, were depressed at the prospect of a change...