Word: likelihoods
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...Hatsutaro Akashi suddenly announced that a group of wealthy and patriotic Japanese love their Army so much that they are going to give it $50,000,000 in installments during the next three years. This was only a small sop, but it tended to decrease rather than increase the likelihood that Japan's swashbucklers would force Premier Koki Hirota to throw down the gage of war in an effort to call the tremendous bluff of Generalissimo Chiang in refusing Japan's demands, if he was bluffing...
...been arranged. There will be no rough contact, however, since this will be only the third day of practice when muscles are going through their sorest and stiffest transitions. With the added incentive to hard and spectacular playing of a stadium full and spectators there would be a strong likelihood of injuries were a scrimmage attempted...
...later Giannini retired, making Mr. Walker chairman of Transamerica and Mr. Walker predicted a great future for branch banking, In 1931 Mr. Walker ruthlessly swept the remaining Gianninis from Transamerica's board of directors, proposed to sell the whole Giannini chain of banks because "there is no apparent likelihood that nation-wide branch banking will be authorized by law in the near-future...
...these worthy efforts we hesitate to advance too definite an opinion of their merits. It seems fairly obvious, however, that the Ruggles-Boland affair will prove gently diverting and productive of laughs from those who find the comic strip "Mr. and Mrs." a mordant social commentary. With equal likelihood the Ellis-Pidgeon doings will add up to a well-acted romantic involvement...
...same day on the front page of the Philadelphia Record appeared a story which Radio Weekly declared ''bore intimations of the most sensational news, in all likelihood, that has ever broken the macabre radio industry." The news was that A. (for Arthur) Atwater Kent was getting out of radio for good. Laconic, the official announcement was merely that "Atwater Kent Manufacturing Co. has decided to be less active in radio lines and has so informed its distributors." But it was learned that all the company's radio production had ceased, that sales were solely from sets...