Word: outlooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strode around London and Paris last week. His job was to negotiate some sort of agreement with the Russians on disarmament, so that A-bombs, H-bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles in Florida might some day become less necessary. Europe's headlines followed him about in friendly fashion ("OUTLOOK-PEACEFUL"). Even his colleagues in Washington-long put out because of his passion for headlines- were now looking upon him with a less jaundiced eye. Harold Stassen was keeping a tight lip and competently going about negotiations as delicate as any in U.S. history: to see whether the Russians...
...touchy field of national defense. That fact was not lost on Senate Democrats, long proud of their defense record, who found themselves liking heavy economy less and less. Therefore, with Republican Leader William Knowland pledging to support defense restorations despite his own budget-cutting hopes, the Senate outlook was increasingly promising. Best prospect: the Senate may go along with the $1.3 billion in "bookkeeping" reductions, but restore the $1.2 billion in muscle cuts from the armed forces...
Politics. A longtime Democrat and friend of Texas Democratic politicos (including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn), Anderson backed Ike in 1952, switched his registration to Republican in 1956. In general outlook, Anderson could well serve as a model Eisenhower Republican. George Humphrey, who became an Anderson friend and admirer through Cabinet contacts, recommended him as the best man for the Treasury...
Artificial Market. If this is done for the next two or three years, Fleming said, American cotton growers will be able to "feel their way" back into world competition. Making the outlook most encouraging, he said, are two facts. One is the continuing expansion of industry in the old Cotton Belt, which is absorbing farmers freed from the hardscrabble, impoverished existence of old-style farming. The other is the competitive advantage of better mechanization enjoyed by American agriculture over foreign growers. With foreign living standards rising rapidly, aid Fleming, the market for cotton is increasing at the rate...
...this intensity in undergraduate activities seems to be only the function of a larger area of seriousness at Harvard in which the student looks on his college career with much more gravity than did his father. The prospect of these shifting values and patterns of life in undergraduate outlook is one that fills alternate observers with anguish and satisfaction...