Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated, it is hard to expect democratic thinking out of a people who have never had a chance to practice democracy. But their attitude should be more cooperative than...
...magazine's circulation (about 3,800,000) would catch the Journal's 4,522,000. To help it do so, McCall's spent $120,000 promoting the seven-article series with radio, newspaper and television advertising. Said Editor Wiese: I have no hesitancy in saying we expect this issue to be a sellout...
Last week, after a nationwide survey of 1,776 companies, Manhattan's hardheaded Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. predicted that all U.S. sales for the second half of 1949 will show an average decline of only 3.3% under 1948's record total. The group surveyed did not expect more than a drop of 3.6% in profits on the average-ranging from 5.1% for the durable goods companies and 4.2% for the wholesalers, to 3.6% for the retailers and only 2.5% for the non-durables...
...investigation by whim can do much more then injure one man or cripple one agency. It can undermine the morale of the entire civil service. It will certainly be difficult to get more men like David Lilienthal--men this country desperately needs--if any government worker must expect attacks on his personal principles and his work at any time by Congressional committees. It doesn't make much sense to deplore the lack of intelligent civil servants and at the same time allow the McKellars and Hickenloopers to attack whomever they please whenever they please. The choice is between a government...
...Holy Year will begin next Christmas Eve. All through 1950, Roman Catholic pilgrims from every corner of the world will journey to Rome, hoping thereby to earn a plenary indulgence (remission of temporal punishment for forgiven sins). Authorities expect at least a million pilgrim visitors to Rome. To help house the throng, a large hostel is being built near the Vatican, and others on the city's outskirts. The Men's International Association for Catholic Action has set up a nonprofit organization called Felix Roma, to arrange tours allowing each pilgrim ten days in Italy (seven in Rome...