Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory. Unlike them, he spends his own money. Since 1934 Joe Pew and his immediate family (Brother John Howard, Sisters Mabel Pew Myrin and Mary Ethel Pew, Nephews Arthur E. Jr. and John G.) have anointed the Republican Party with an estimated $2,000,000. They expect to spend a great deal more before Nov. 5, and much of it outside Philadelphia, outside Pennsylvania. They do not regret one dollar...
...come. Before the Allies have finished the "first phase" of their aircraft procurement program (reputedly within the next few months), they will place another $350,000,000 of orders for delivery in the next 18 months. Manufacturers, hanging on the tail of a high-flying business kite, expect the orders in plenty of time for delivery of ships early in 1942 if they are still needed...
...Expert for the press" in the German Legation in Stockholm is a Dr. Grassmann, who is often seen going from newspaper to newspaper with material. If an article is refused, the newspaper can expect the immediate cancellation of advertisements by German-owned firms and their Swedish branches. Germany's invasion of Norway failed to get the same vigorous condemnation in the Swedish press that Russia's attack on Finland received...
Today British and French doctors expect no epidemics of typhus, typhoid or cholera. Although there is no effective remedy for any of these diseases, all can be prevented by sanitary precautions. British soldiers are given inoculations against smallpox, tetanus, typhoid. But a titanic task faces the doctors of Germany and Central Europe...
Since influenza runs in cycles of some 20 years, some epidemiologists expect another great pandemic any year now. In recent months British doctors have anxiously watched flu graphs, but last week the British Medical Journal heaved a sigh of relief, announced that "this year's epidemic certainly does not rank among the major visitations of recent years...