Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trucks off the highway. Put the trucks on piggyback." The railroad's sign symbolized a growing problem for the U.S. trucking industry. Piggybacking, which was originally envisioned as a happy marriage between trucks and railroads, has zoomed 180% (to some 210,000 carloadings annually) since 1954, and the outlook is for a $1 billion business by 1965. But so far, railroads have puffed off with most of the profits. Of 39 roads offering some form of piggyback service, only seven do business with common-carrier highway truckers; all the rest have set up their own piggyback truck lines, perform...
...religious revival "real"? What caused it? Is it "leading to the betterment of individual lives"? When the National Council of Churches' monthly Outlook put these questions to 34 top religious leaders and laymen, they found the laymen generally optimistic and the professionals generally skeptical. Some of the more notable headshakings...
...varsity hockey team, which started its season officially at Watson Rink this afternoon in practice, has perhaps the brightest outlook of all the major teams except for squash. The sextet won its third consecutive Ivy League championship hands down last year and should be able to at least equal that feat again this year. Most of the 1956 forward lines are returning this season, along with several members of an outstanding freshman team. And for the second straight year its captain, James Bailey, is the goalie. The hockey team is definitely the outfit to watch this year...
Another elegible diplomat trained under the last Democratic Administration is George Kennan, former head of the State Department's policy, planning staff and architect of the containment policy, who could bring his highly professional outlook to the top post in the State Department. Or, by way of contrast, Chester Bowles, once Governor of Connecticut and Ambassador to India, is considered a possible Secretary of State who would be an active salesman for American democracy, particularly in Asia...
...leading lithographer, Yoshinobu Masuda, 51, and Zebras, by Swiss Painter Hans Erni. What gladdens lithograph fans most, however, is that the current boom is matching quality with quantity. Not since the days when such lithographers as Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and Signac were at work has the outlook been so bright. Says Cincinnati's Print Curator Gustave von Groschwitz: "The current boom will equal and already looks as if it will surpass the golden age of the 1890s...