Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrested as Communists. Juries in all provinces of the Dominion can be asked to follow Ontario in deciding that membership in the Communist Party is per se a crime in Canada-which it is not in the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, et al. Facing the legal prospect of filling Ontario's jails, with Reds, Prosecutor Sommerville planned to do still more...
...From an output of only 90,000 tons in 1925 Africa rose to 160,000 tons in 1930. Katanga, controlled by the Belgian Government, backed by British capital, operating under strictest of colonial regimes, rapidly rose to lead the Africans. U. S. producers have to dig deep when they prospect new veins but Katanga's ore lies so close to the surface they do their prospecting by airplane. Labor costs are on a like scale. A Bantu boy working hard in Katanga's opencut mines gets about $5 a month. Production costs come to about...
There were articles on funeral prices, cut-rate practices, arrangement of the casket display room so that the prospect will not always select the cheap ones. Only once was the delicate (to the undertaker) subject of cremation mentioned; thus...
...read from TIME, Sept. 21 issue, The Presidency, the full article from which the following are excerpts: "At 4 p.m. one hot day last week President Hoover kept his regular appointment with the Press. . . . The U. S. public is being unduly alarmed about the degree of hardship in prospect for this winter. . . . The psychology of fear should labelled. be . . ." exiled and a national sign hung out As he neared the end of the quotation, Chair man Horner paused dramatically, the delegates waited for the plum. He raised his voice to a shout as he voiced a platitudinous slogan, be loved...
...decade . . . might be described succinctly by saying that Harding had to liquidate the War; Coolidge had quietly to liquidate the scandals of the Harding regime; and Hoover is now watching the liquidation of 'Coolidge prosperity.' " The War was a calamitous setback to the U. S. Dream. "The prospect is discouraging today, but not hopeless. . . . We have a long and arduous road to travel if we are to realize our American dream in the life of our nation, but if we fail, there is nothing left but the old eternal round. The alternative is the failure of self-government...