Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consumers' Counsel of AAA calculated that retail food prices had risen 12% in a year. The National Industrial Conference Board calculated a 21.5% rise in food prices from April 1933 to the close of last July. With bigger price rises ahead, consumers might find the prospect gloomy but the Department of Agriculture officially reassured them: "What shortages do exist can be compensated for by shifts in the diet to use more of the foods which are available in abundance. As a whole, these shifts can be accomplished without any severe burden on consumers as to cost, or any material decrease...
...prospect was not as bright as it was a month ago. By last week traders had reduced their estimates of the Canadian crop to the point where Canada would have only about 160,000,000 bu. for export. And Australia, still four months from harvest, was put down for an exportable surplus of only 70,000,000 bu. out of this year's crop?less than half of normal. Thus Canada & Australia between them could barely supply the Mother Country's needs...
...walls. Today this hum has become a "boom" with riveters dinning all day in and out of London. Last week came another omen of British recovery as hawk-nosed, stoop-shouldered Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loosened the Empire's money bags a trifle and dangled the prospect of loans before countries which have hooked their currencies to Sterling. When he took the pound off gold, Chancellor Chamberlain slapped a precautionary embargo on loaning British money overseas. Technically this embargo still blocks even British loans to the Dominions, but Mr. Chamberlain has leniently winked at several issues...
...stars. Thus Drs. Baade & Zwicky hold it not unlikely that soon or late every star is destined to burst forth as a supernova. If they are right the old concept of the end of the world?life freezing to death under a cooling sun? must give way to the prospect of life scorched to death by a sun having its final fling before joining the stellar ghosts in the cosmic graveyard...
Helen Wills Moody, in retirement since defaulting to Helen Jacobs in the final of the U. S. championship at Forest Hills last autumn, was last week reporting the Wimbledon tournament for Hearst papers. To have her longtime rival describe her first victory at Wimbledon was the pleasant prospect which presented itself to Helen Jacobs when she entered the centre court last week to play the final against England's demure Dorothy Round...