Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospect of "Beer by April'' set the U. S. abubble with activity and excitement last week. Some bubblings: ¶Already producing near-beer under Federal license, 211 breweries announced their readiness to swing into production of the "real thing" on only ten minutes notice...
...week's sales everywhere, was reduced to a point where General Motors and Chrysler temporarily suspended national advertising. Ford was employing 27,000 men against 42,000 before the holiday. Many of Detroit's foremost citizens, already half or more broke, found themselves faced by the prospect of having to pay huge assessments on their bank stock holdings. And there was no promise of early bank re-openings...
...Economics is a naissant science and there is prospect of very important developments during the next few years. You ask me what I think of President Roosevelt's economic theories. His action these first weeks has been vigorous and decisive. He has seen what he should do and has supplied instantaneous action. Further than that, I would rather not make any comments, particularly as I do not feel that I sufficiently understand his entire program...
...legislatures of 20 states were last week considering legalized race betting. Causes of this sudden wave of liberalizing seemed to be several: an extension of the anti-Puritanism that brought about the proposed 21st Amendment; the spread of interest in horse racing due to better management, better horses; the prospect of state revenues from betting. Wherever there is pari-mutuel betting, the state takes a percentage of the total amount wagered. Pari-mutuel betting is legal in Maryland, Kentucky, Illinois. Louisiana, Nevada. Montana, and, since 1931, Florida. This year, bets at Florida's No. 1 track, Hialeah Park, totaled...
There lies before only the prospect of weary days in Sever and weary nights in Widener. And what a bad time to study it is. Berkeley appears even more esoteric and fanciful than in January. Surely it must have been in March that Johnson bade him go kick a stone. The gilt shimmer of Imperial Napoleon tarnishes under the leaden light of a March sky and there is soil upon the green breeches. Rousseau weeping for his brain children beneath the trees seems only rather maudlin where before his cries ran down the avenues of revolution. The Vagabond, being...