Word: expects
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...shipments from Siberia to Moscow are 37 per cent less than required for paper work necessary to launch a major conflict. . . Taxes: House Ways and Means Committee plans to repeal excise on baby oil and powder . . . Babies are already turning to light machine oil, affecting YOUR fall investment plans . . . Expect SOME strikes in the next 30-60-90 days. . . Taft-Hartley Act generally effective except in coal, autos, telephone, shipping, railroads, printing, electric, textiles, building trades, clothing, aircraft, farm equipment, retail business, steel, and white-collar occupations . . . General Eisenhower WILL RUN in '52-if the time is ripe...
Writing in the current issue of Religion in Life, Holloway thinks that the old, nonresistance type of pacifism may survive in a few sects. "But modern pacifism, which endeavored to substitute morals for politics, or to equate Gandhi's political shrewdness with the Cross of Christ, may expect to meet greater difficulties...
...Long? By 1951 Levitt & Sons expect to build another 10,000 Levittown houses. But whether the Levitts, or all of the other builders, will build as many houses as they plan depends on how long the housing shortage-and the housing boom-lasts. Last week the Department of Commerce estimated that about two-thirds of the pent-up housing demand has already been filled. However, said the department, the "remaining backlog is still large and appears sufficient to warrant construction close to the recent yearly rates for [another] three years...
Sofia Rilke was annoyed. Had not the daughter of an Imperial Councillor, the wife of the Inspector of the Bohemian Northern Railway, a right to expect that her prayers for a daughter would be graciously granted? Yet here it was, a boy after all. In a foolish pet, Sofia decided to raise her son as a daughter, anyway. She put up his hair in braids, kept him in pretty frocks and dainty underwear, set him to playing with dolls and little girls, and called him "Sophie...
...comedienne Grade Fields fired a parting shot at her fellow comedians: "Everybody is trying to be too clever and too quick these days. It's the day of the gag writer. The actors grab their dreary little scripts and study them frantically for a half hour, and then expect to put on a show...