Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tufts is concerned, the heavyweight match, which pits highly touted Ralph Sherry of the Jumbes against Chief Boston, is the feature attraction of the afternoon. Sherry, a Junior, made an outstanding record for himself last year as a Sophomore, and he is undoubtedly Coach Ruggeri's best prospect...
...destroyers, etc.) to a whopping $720,000,000. His big news on Rearmament was that he would this week ask Congress in a supplementary message for some $500,000,000 more. Biggest item: $300,000,000 for 3,500 to 4,000 new Army planes, jumping the total in prospect by 1941 to around 6,000 (as against the 10,000 predicted during recent Rearmament hullabaloo...
...Hopkins & Co. into the armament business was a chance to hitch New Deal pump-priming to National Defense. In the democratic jitters after Munich they saw a glittering opportunity to butter up and stimulate heavy industry without surrendering to it on the issues of labor, utilities, regulation. The bright prospect to them was that businessmen who got Government millions in armament orders could hardly object to continued and even intensified regulation, especially if it were in the name of National Defense. Public health, housing, power, all could be tied to Rearmament-for-uplift, and Franklin Roosevelt would have...
...head the company siren was already wailing. Before long hundreds of miners' wives and children, thankful for the prospect of a Christmas pay check an hour before, stood frozen-faced at the mine entrance. Toll: 21 dead, 32 critically injured, not one of the 250 unhurt. It was the worst mine disaster in Nova Scotia since 1918. In Sydney Mines some shop-keepers took down the Christmas decorations from their windows...
...Clara Swain. Today the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, spending some $1,500,000 a year on 5,500 missionaries, Bible women and other workers in 17 lands, is the largest U. S. organization of its kind. Last week, not without some pangs and misgivings, it faced the prospect of losing its identity-in the impending merger of the three main branches of U. S. Methodism...