Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night, Dr. Reynolds declared that self-regulation of industry "places in the hands of private interests tremendous power, with no guarantee that this power will be used for the public good." He stated that "where competition exists the chances of planful exploitation of the public are reduced and the likelihood of technical progress is increased," but said that "competition has already practically disappeared in many industries, and that in other industries it has proven conspicuously wasteful." Placing public regulation as the only alternative to competition, Dr. Reynolds said that it would be necessary that "a public agency . . . shall actually decide...
Particularly interesting to de Terra is the likelihood of an ancient bridge that may have existed between Malaya and the Asiatic continent which would shed light further on early human migrations between India and Java...
...covered 114,000 miles during his four years in the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has probably done more roadwork than any President in U. S. history. Up to last week, the Roosevelt mileage at home and abroad since 1933, totaled roughly 104,000. Last week appeared the likelihood of a trip that would considerably increase his mileage. Washington rumor for the past month has murmured that the President planned a cross country jaunt to Seattle, ostensibly to visit his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger. Last week, Publisher Boettiger revealed what almost no one else...
...around the world. She started from Miami, Fla. on June i with Fred Noonan, onetime Pan American navigator. They made mostly back page news until last fortnight when they started across 2,550 miles of Pacific Ocean toward tiny Howland Island, failed to reach it. Last week the likelihood was approaching sad certainty that Amelia Earhart Putnam had made headlines for the last time...
...There have not been any riots in Moscow and probably no place else and there probably will not be. Few, if any, qualified foreign observers appear to believe there is a likelihood of anything more dramatic happening here than a continuation of the arrests, dismissals, trials and shootings." It was dramatic enough that the Premier of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, the Vice Premier, and the Mayor of Bukhara were ousted from their jobs last week. The Premier's brother had meanwhile committed suicide. Over in White Russia, where the President killed himself fortnight ago, it was Railway Commissar Nikolai...