Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maine went Democratic. So did the nation. Secretary Ickes put Engineer Cooper on a special survey committee. Its report was favorable. Before long Army Engineers found themselves standing on the brink of Cobscook Bay with $10,000,000 of relief cash in prospect and White House orders to start Quoddy Dam. To save international complications the project had been cut in half and confined entirely to U. S. waters. Even so. its estimated cost was $36,000,000. Five dams had to be built between the islands enclosing Cobscook Bay. In places the water was 150 ft. deep...
...observation platform Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson spoke his good wishes into a microphone which gave him a nationwide audience. Without topcoat or hat but wearing white gloves was fair-haired Leopold Stokowski, exulting not only over the tour to come but because there is a prospect of a European trip next season. Cameras clicked rapidly while Frances A. Wister of the Orchestra Board presented Conductor Stokowski with a fox-terrier pup named Nipper. The New York Philharmonic players sent money to buy each of the travelers a beer. Led by Trumpeter Saul Caston, the Orchestra's brasses blew...
...inception of the movement at Princeton was received hilariously all over the country as a clever joke relieving the midwinter monotony on Prospect Street. It rapidly expanded to two hundred posts with twenty-two thousand members. Gold Star Mothers and Foreign Correspondents of Future Wars were invented. Buttonholed pedestrians on New York streets jovially contributed quarters. But it was all in the same hilarious spirit, and eagerly backed up by a press that is always ready to play up any college joke...
Last week the House passed a bill requiring the registration of lobbyists. The Senate passed a similar bill last year. Differences between the two will be ironed out in conference. In full prospect, therefore, was a new law for the regulation of nuisances...
...thing to guard against copies in expensive lines and another thing to give the same attention to lower priced dresses, which are bought in greater quantities and sold to people who cared not at all whether they were copies or not. The retailers did not like the prospect of competing in these lines under Guild restrictions with the chain stores, which were selling the same lines under no restrictions. They were also irritated by what they regarded as a dictatorial tone in the latest Guild communications...