Word: utopianizing
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...next year, Flemington and Hunterdon County will have paid off $11,000 in bonded debt with city slicker money, will be debt free. What will happen then, Flemingtonians do not know. But they can dream-of a super-velvety municipal golf course, a Hollywoodian town swimming pool, even a Utopian tax holiday...
...prediction, to H. D. Hoekstra of the Civil Aeronautics Administration.* Use of the metal beryllium he called a "tantalizing dream" because it would reduce the weight of a Douglas DC-3 (now 13 tons) by more than a ton. Glass fabric, bonded by plastics, seems to him an "almost Utopian material" for plane structures and wing covering. But he thinks that aluminum alloys will remain the leader for some time, with competition from stainless steel where corrosion is involved...
Since the University does not want student furniture, it leaves many undergraduates the single alternative of sending their room fixtures to a warehouse and there are complications that make this idea far from utopian. Those leaving in a hurry will have to deal hastily with a trucking system and a storage company. The rates for this type of transaction would be prohibitively high in most cases because the student would be paying for truck and storage space that his small amount of furniture couldn't fill...
...turned in a record which made the socialization argument academic. Passenger-miles increased from 29 billion to 50 billion, or over 70%; freight ton-miles jumped from 475 to 630 billion, or 33%. Carloadings were practically unchanged from 1941, but loadings per car were way up, indicating a near Utopian efficiency of operation...
Periodicals dealing with subjects as ephemeral as "planning the post-war world" are apt to find themselves becalmed in the doldrums of utopian yearnings. "Threshold" has skillfully stayed afloat and on its course without jettisoning its credo...