Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machinery, wire and textile manufacturies) was treated last week to its 71st festival of music. Six years ago New England's oldest festival threatened to snuff out for lack of financial support. President Hamilton B. Wood of Commonwealth Press, a dabbler in musical composition, became indignant at the prospect. He won the support of keen Carpetmaker Matthew P. Whittall and Treasurer Harrison G. Taylor of the local Five Cents Savings Bank. Together these three canvassed the city for subscriptions, engaged Conductor Albert Stoessel. Now the annual concerts in Mechanics Hall are rewarded with increasing enthusiasm. Orchestral numbers, choruses and solos...
...spectacle of "America's Sweet-heart" cavorting at the head of the Harvard band in every movie theatre and Fair Harvard crooned and moaned to the accompaniment of the saxophone's bleat in every radio is truly overpowering; one cannot help but feel a slight giddiness at such a prospect, and perhaps under the circumstances the less said about the inefficiency of the publicity department the better...
...practice on the river for the next few weeks will continue to be extremely light: It is particularly helpful to men who have never rowed before, and who have a chance to start their work before the busy spring season, when coaches and crews are constantly working with the prospect of races before them...
...Significance. For ten years Dry majorities in Congress have been discouragingly large to Wets who could seem to make no appreciable headway in reducing them. This year, for the first time in a decade. Wets have made sufficient gain in the primaries, with more in prospect in the election, to feel that a turning tide of public sentiment is at last in their favor. Well aware are they cf the fact that their muster roll in the 72nd Congress will by no means be large enough to effect any sort of major change in Prohibition policy. But the eyes...
Meanwhile the prospect that New York might yet be the first State to go in for the wholesale production of power had moved the big power companies that serve New York City to volunteer lower rates. Last week acrimonious hearings were held before the Public Service Commission on the proposal of the New York Edison, Brooklyn Edison, United Electric Light & Power. Bronx Gas & Electric and New York & Queens Electric Light & Power to reduce the domestic rate from 7¢ to 5¢ per kilowatt hour but to add a 60¢ charge to every monthly bill for "meter service." Such a rate...