Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finds only poor prospects for long-run growth in the fact that private consumers and producers have no large blocks of unsatisfied needs to be met. "The outlook is not too good," Meyer claimed, "and the present situation is also decidedly...
...where Cicero stood"), and wife Olive shopped for Christmas presents of handkerchiefs and Venetian glass. Then Baptist Diefenbaker called at the Vatican for an audience with Pope John XXIII, chatted for 15 minutes, emerged exclaiming at the new Pope's "benign, amiable" personality "and his modest outlook." He quoted the Pope as having told him (through an interpreter): "Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap...
...farm, the outlook was not so good. The Agriculture Department predicted last week that net farm income in 1959 may drop 5% to 10% below 1958, after a year of the highest farm profits in five years (see chart). Hog and poultry prices are expected to decline, and crop prices will be lower as a result of this year's record crop and surpluses. Next year's crop may be equally large, or larger, partly because the Government will scrap soil-bank payments to farmers for underplanting their acres, thus depriving them of $700 million in payments made...
...economists and businessmen who gathered this week at the University of Michigan's annual economic-outlook conference took a rosy look into 1959. After making a study of no big U.S. corporations, speakers predicted that 1959 corporate earnings will run 25% above...
Crocodiles & Tourists. Though an ardent supporter of Catholic Action and the Demo-Christian Party, Cardinal Roncalli won the admiration of many a Venetian leftist for his progressive outlook. He shocked conservatives by proposing that some marble panels be removed from the interior of St. Mark's to give worshipers a better view, but he was dead against a proposal to set up gambling facilities in St. Mark's Square. Once he aimed a shaft of wit at the scantily clad tourists who swarm the city in the summertime: "People need not come to Italy in furs or woollens...