Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short-Range. The short-range objectives are supposed to establish sane and honest conditions for freer trade in Western Europe as soon as possible, and to prod its industry into more competition and greater efficiency. The U.S. Congress will expect to be shown considerable progress toward these objectives when it considers iQSo's EGA appropriations early next year. The objectives...
Germans, who have never shown any talent for democracy, are today corroded by 16 years' dictatorship, war and defeat. They have probably made greater progress toward democracy than the U.S. had a right to expect on V-E day; the many political-action groups which have sprung up all over West Germany, and the high turnout (nearly 80% of the eligible voters) at last summer's elections, indicate that at least some Germans have begun to see that the government is their concern. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous...
...Album is hastening to join the '47-'48 Album in the better-late-than-never department, the '49 Album, a veritable tyro in the field, has announced a tentative publication date of April 1, 1950. April Fool's Day being what it is, however, there is no reason to expect any new speed records in Album production...
...School education logic sometimes goes astray, because teaching a young man to be an executive before his time can occasionally lead to trouble. "We often find a good bright boy, say from Middle-bury, more satisfactory," a company personnel man once reported. "These Harvard men walk in here and expect a desk twice as long as mine and with half a dozen push buttons...
...expect to send a copy of this letter to the Boston Globe, Harvard Alumni Bulletin, the Crimson, and New York Times for release Tuesday morning, November 29th, 1949. I believe it expresses the opinion of most former Harvard football players...