Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disgruntled jobless miners rubbed their eyes, grinned at the prospect of jobs at good wages. In Seaham they read announcements that Londonderry Collieries Ltd. has decided to spend $1,250,000 at Seaham Harbor putting up a huge plant for extraction of oil from Seaham coal. "This will mean jobs for 1,500 additional men in the mines," said a Londonderry executive. By rushing construction of the great plant at a speed unprecedented in Britain, Londonderry expects to open it in March, the General Election being expected shortly afterward...
...thousands & thousands of U. S. college seniors, who hate the prospect of hunting jobs, a prime ambition is to start some campus enterprise which they can take with them when they graduate. This year four Princeton seniors have built up such a business in Campus Publicity Service. Last week, however, they were thinking less about their plans for future expansion than about charges that they had been taking a low advantage of their fellow students...
...secured the restoration of a large part of the pension cuts made by President Roosevelt in the name of Depression economy. In 1931 the Legion membership reached a peak of 1,050,000. Last year it was down to 887,000. This year, with the prospect of more cash, it hopes to finish with 1,250,000 dues-paying members. Three-quarters of the Legion membership is in small towns, the kind from which most Congressmen come. Each Legionary has four or five voting relatives and friends who will use their ballots as he suggests. This political combination is what...
...Broadcasting Co., in limpet-like approximation to the name of His Majesty's Government's stuffy British Broadcasting Co.* Fortnight ago President Plugge sent Vice President Frank Lamping to storm Manhattan, and U. S. exporters to Great Britain found themselves signing on dotted lines, fascinated by the prospect of having their U. S. products hawked in England by voices from Paris, Madrid and even Luxembourg...
...gaudy tabloid Daily Mirror. To practically all of the Herald Tribune's staff it was a disruptive shock. Stanley Walker had built up the ablest staff of newswriters in the city. They, in turn, fairly idolized him. More than one actually wept into his beer at the prospect of a city room without City Editor Walker. That loyalty was a contributing factor in Stanley Walker's decision to quit. He had never been able to get the Herald Tribune to pay his bright, hard-working young men what he knew they were worth. But his prime reasons...