Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than to any serious defect in the Act. But in spite of the most far reaching crop control laws ever enacted, all three major U. S. crops are in trouble. Wheat, with a near-record crop of 940,000,000 bushels and a whopping 300.000,000 bushel carryover in prospect for next year, has stumbled to 50? a bushel on the farm (against $1.25 in 1936). A plan to subsidize export of 100,000,000 bushels has been so snagged by record surpluses abroad that only 10,000,000 bushels had been moved out by last week. AAA estimated that...
...oldtime Portlanders were not convinced this was the final word on the future of their most famous newspaper. When Henry Pittock's 470 shares of stock are distributed among five heirs next year, almost anything can happen. And back of this uncertain prospect loomed the tenacious shadow of the other giant who built the Oregonian-its famed, longtime (1865-1910) editor, Harvey Whitefield Scott, who died convinced that Henry Pittock had double-crossed...
BERLIN, Wednesday, Sept. 28--UP--It was reported without confirmation today that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has decided to order his armies to march on Czechosolavakia immediately if there is no prospect of a peaceful solution of the Czech crisis by 2 P.M. today--8 A.M., E.S.T. The report indicated that the Nazi Fuehrer, angered by the tone of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech in London last night, has decided to strike quickly...
...false, there was no lack of apprehension in the Administration. Most Departments of the Government were hard at work behind closed doors cogitating, calculating, planning-to buffer the shock if & when war came. Under the Neutrality Act and various New Deal laws vesting power in the Chief Executive, the prospect was for more one-man government than the U. S. has yet seen when not at war itself. The job of all executive branches was to compile data and memoranda to guide Franklin Roosevelt should bombs and shells start flying in Czechoslovakia...
Died. Hilda, 8, the Prospect Park Zoo's 3,000-lb. Indian elephant who fortnight ago was knocked into a 25-ft. moat by her mate; by shooting, after X-rays showed she would never recover from broken vertebrae; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Death came also to the U. S.'s only pangolin (TIME, Sept. 12). Cause: strangulation on a food morsel too big for its tiny mouth...