Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...rebuke administered to Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt, who returned last month with words of comfort for the tottery Pétain regime (see p. 27). Mr. Roosevelt's trusted Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau last week indicated that Hitler's France can expect no comfort from the U. S. More for emphasis than as a practical consideration, Mr. Morgenthau went so far as to suggest that impounded French gold and credits (total value: $1,350,000,000) might be applied to pre-Hitler France's unpaid World War I debts (balance and interest...
...banking power. Instead of financial kings, industrialists, foreign statesmen and Oriental potentates, his anterooms and the entrance to the Palace were crowded with anxious officials demanding back salary, retired civil servants wanting overdue pensions, and worried captains of industry begging for credit to get their factories going. "People expect miracles," remarked...
Phantom Arsenals. Anxious to break down the general reluctance of the people to accept dictation and to prevent growing criticism of the Government for not restoring pre-war conditions, the regimented press urged Frenchmen to realize that they cannot expect to recover "the easy life of yore." More than mere anxiety lay behind a Government decree providing the death penalty for civilians found with firearms after July 30. In the chaotic days of the armistice, control was lax and a large percentage of military equipment was not surrendered. Thoughts of this "phantom arsenal" in the hands of a desperate citizenry...
...size and bargaining power between the five manufacturers, the thousands of small growers. Answered American Tobacco Co.'s President George Washington Hill: "If the prosperity of an industry, the growth and successful operation of a company . . . were to be made causes for attack, then we could scarcely expect to be immune...
...tional Physical Laboratory, grandson of Evolution's great Charles Darwin. In effect the method is to work down as far as possible with the magnetism of molecules, then continue with the magnetism in the nuclei (cores) of the atoms themselves. In this way, researchers can plausibly expect to get down to one hundred-thousandth, possibly to one millionth of a degree above absolute zero...