Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia. For the handsomest braintruster, this display of Presidential favor came at a critical moment. Congress last session had refused to appropriate funds for his Resettlement Administration, forcing him to confine its activities chiefly to drought relief, financed by handouts from WPA. With a thoroughgoing Governmental re-organization in prospect, Administrator Tugwell was last week jockeying strenuously to get his emergency agency incorporated in the Department of Agriculture, where he could expect solid permanence, ample appropriations. But Secretary Wallace was known to be reluctant to adopt this controversial foundling, and a group of onetime AAAdministrator Chester Davis' friends...
...billed. As a compromise, they packed her off to Europe to hobnob with composers, improve her languages, acquire polish. Back she came this fall to an orchestra moved into the big Chicago Auditorium, to a board of directors headed by rich and beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris, to the brightest prospect she has ever had. Last week when some 2,000 people poured into the hall for her opening concert, blonde, strapping Mrs. Sundstrom showed herself as good a strategist as she is musician...
...forced the oil companies to make a radical change in their marketing methods. The companies simply got out of the retail business. To filling station operators they offered leases which made them, overnight, independent businessmen. Spreading rapidly into other States where rigorous chain legislation was in force or in prospect, the Iowa Plan became a national transformation. Beginning last January, great Standard Oil of New Jersey leased or sold 2,000 of its 2,500 company-owned Esso stations. Continental Oil disposed of every one of its 1,276 stations. Phillips Petroleum retained only six stations as training schools...
...freshmen in making their selections but also the house plan in general, is undeniable. Seven colorful and distinctive houses could not help but reflect well on Harvard, and though internecine bickering over details and lack of cooperation among the houses might foil the launching of the plan itself, the prospect still remains undimmed. Some day Harvard must recognize separate and distinct personalities for each of its seven houses if they are to grow in stature...
...lower rate of labor turnover makes for more efficient operation, fewer accidents. Although the dealer now has to carry more cars on his floor during the winter, he, too, has benefited because his selling season is longer. The one snag is used cars. A new model may excite a prospect into an early purchase but second-hand cars are still bought in the spring...