Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this all. In addition the Prime Minister proposed, with every prospect that they will be carried, a schedule of internal taxes under which the Treasury would receive 2½% of the sales price of everything bought in Australia other than certain selected commodities. Conservative opponents of Laborite Scullin figured out hastily and announced with vociferous shouts: "Such tariffs and taxes will increase the cost of living £i a head [$4.86] a week! Shame...
...Department of Agriculture, anxious to reduce wheat acreage, came out with a lengthy report of which the essence was: "While improvement is expected over the low level of prices in the past month, the present prospect is that world wheat prices during the next seven years will average appreciably lower than in the past seven years...
...explanation of Britain's insistence upon limiting U. S. cruisers to 18 at the risk of disrupting the parley was as follows: If the U. S. had 21 cruisers, Japan insisted upon upping its big-cruiser strength proportionately. That prospect frightened the British Dominions, particularly Australia and New Zealand, which live in chronic dread of Japanese aggression. They informed the home government that unless Japanese cruiser strength was held down as a consequence of U. S. limitation at 18, they would build big cruisers on their own authority and thus disrupt any prospect of parity and limitation. Britain, caught...
...doubt that was far from optimistic. The needs of the Biology Department have long been inadequately satisfied, but for many years there was no apparent attempt to alleviate the distressing conditions. Last year it was announced that definite steps were being taken to erect a biological institute, and the prospect was brighter. But a year elapsed and nothing happened, and it was not until the present announcement that the new project became a certainty...
Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, denounced the measure. Shipping men lamented the prospect of reduced foreign trade in their bottoms, spoke of upping ocean freight rates to offset their loss. Theodore Gary of Kansas City, whom Senator Moses appointed as Republican Senatorial campaign cash collector, declared the bill was "highly detrimental" and that U. S. industries would lose more than they would gain from...