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Word: outlooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albania and eight other nations whose entry into the United Nations is sponsored by the Soviet Union ran into a four power road block at Lake Success yesterday, with the outlook growing doubtful that any of them would be accepted. Russia, however, won a diplomatic victory in UNESCO, as she successfully defended Hungary's application for UNESCO membership against a Cuban motion that would have put the Russian satellite in the same excluded category as Spain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Albanian Membership to UN Meets Opposition from Western Powers; 'Boom Times Unsound'---Truman | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

...bill in Rio. The little countries were not so sure. Said a Costa Rican: "We have an army of about 100 men. If we get lots of arms and equipment, we'll find ourselves with a real army, a burden on the treasury, with a militarist outlook that would destroy our democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Farewell to Arms? | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...realized that he himself had changed, in dress and outlook, out of recognition, but by his look Sturdy might have stopped out of 1940. "Look guy," Sturdy beamed, "It's good to find a human in town. Let's get a drink and talk. I know a couple of girls." Vag smiled privately. He bet Sturday knew a couple of girls. Rumors of his high-flying amours had in their freshman year kept three baby deans permanently poised to pounce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

...distillers were even less happy than retailers over the outlook. Their stocks are up to from 355,000,000 gallons in February to 432,000,000 in May, an alltime record, and nationwide sales have dropped 20 to 30% under last year's. The big distillers were already cutting back production. Yet they had managed to keep wholesale prices up, except on poor or little-known brands. With Scotch prices down, it looked as if the domestic whiskies were next. Distillers feared that a price war-of the proportions of 1936-38 and 1940-41-was dead ahead. Consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Down the Hatch | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...House passed its drastic labor bill three weeks ago, the nation still feared another wrenching series of strikes in the 1946 pattern. But now the prospects for industrial peace were better than at any time since the war. The Senate, facing its own labor bill last week, considered the outlook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Changed Outlook | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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