Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime across the continent in Hollywood a shutdown of the nation's major cinema studios remained all week in prospect as 6,000 painters, make-up men & scenic artists and members of eight other crafts, allied in Federated Motion Picture Crafts, continued on strike for union recognition and closed shops (TIME, May 10). With the help of strikebreakers, cameras ground away as usual, but over Hollywood hung the ominous air of strike-torn Detroit. Strikers, working in three shifts of 1,000 pickets each, shuffled around the studios, scuffled with non-strikers, tried to intimidate actors and others passing...
...President Montgomery with telling arguments, Second Vice President Joan Crawford knitted away like a Madam Defarge, occasionally stiffening the men's backbones with her cry: "We strike!" Meantime the Guild's senior members were being polled, voting overwhelmingly for a strike if negotiations broke down. In prospect was the extraordinary spectacle of the cinema's top celebrities marching in picket lines outside studios and theatres. Stuntmen and cowboy actors prepared to organize a troop of 300 horsemen for picketing, or for charges on producers if required...
...opposite end of the earth, the Union of South Africa, whose stake in gold is the world's heaviest, was agitated not by excited prospectors but by the prospect of a gold collapse. The Johannesburg stockmarket has already had one panicקast month when rumors flew that the U. S. was about to reduce the price of gold from $35 to $25 per oz. So bad was the break in gold shares that an investigation was loudly demanded in the House of Assembly with the big mining companies accused of manipulating their own stocks. "Absolutely absurd and fantastic," cried...
...With the prospect of two years field work in the desert plateau of central Persia, Bennett F. Buie, proctor in Wigglesworth and Geology 1 section man, will sail from Now York this morning on an expedition sent out by the American Oil Company...
...added his signature to a proclamation of loyalty to the Government. Later, a sick man, he left his war-torn country for neutral France. The essays in his book were all written before the Spanish civil war began, but this historian's-eye-view reveals an even grimmer prospect than appears in current headlines and newsreels...