Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that she consider taking over both his Washington newspapers (the other is the evening Times). She said she wanted time to think it over, and meanwhile in April arranged to lease the Herald. Last fortnight she heard that Mr. Meyer had increased his bid. Now thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of losing her pride & joy, she called San Simeon again. "Well, Cissy," said Mr. Hearst, "you tell me what you want to do and I'll have my folks...
...Treasury for holders of Government bonds long since matured, that among the 1,000 or more railroad bonds foreclosed since 1865 many had a "decree value" for claimants, though no notice was ever given of payments to their owners or trustees. The Depression rather delighted Mr. Smythe with the prospect of numberless new depreciated issues, but he died in 1930 leaving his widow such an accumulation of odd securities that his estate was virtually impossible to probate...
With a billion-dollar wheat crop in prospect in the U. S., the Department of Agriculture predicted last week that total farm income this year would top $10,000,000,000 for the first time since 1929. Industrially the picture was still more pleasing. Second-quarter earnings reports would be closely scanned for signs of shrinking profit margins but actual profits were expected to compare favorably with a year ago. Operations in the steel industry were above a year ago although strikes cut the rate from above 90% capacity in May to around 75% currently. The price of steel scrap...
Most remarkable fact about the 1937 kudos list was the abdication of the nation's four perennial kudos champions. Nicholas Murray Butler, who received his 35th honorary degree last winter from Trujillo University in San Domingo, appeared to be satisfied. Nor were there any degrees in prospect last week for the New York Times's commencement-speaking Editor John Huston Finley (30), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27). In their stead 1937 had produced many a new public face...
...lies in the everlasting nature of the search for truth." And now much room for spiritual freedom is there in a land where one of the scholars writes that "The teachings of Marx and Lenin have been incarnated in life. The socialist reconstruction of society is not a distant prospect but a definite plan of great work .... And as in all epochs in reconstructing social relationships we are reconstructing science...