Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dollars for Planes. Last week a mission* returned to Ottawa with word that Canada could make North American's F-86 jet fighter. Also in prospect was a license on a U.S. transport (perhaps Fairchild's C-82) to be built in Canada...
Scentinel. In Belfast, the Ministry of Food, distressed at the prospect of poultry being illegally shipped to England, engaged a bull terrier to sniff at all outgoing packages...
During the crisis stage of the battle for Suchow last month, Fred Gruin, TIME Inc.'s Nanking bureau chief, was faced with the prospect of either getting a correspondent and a photographer to the front for an eyewitness account of the fighting or confessing to his editors in New York that he did not know the score. Both the Nationalists and the Communists were claiming the victory...
After the excitement of a stretch in the Gordon Highlanders during World War I, life in Scotland's coastal town of Perth seemed a dull prospect to young Bill Hutton. Instead of going home at war's end, he signed up with the Shanghai police. From time to time in the next 20 years, he would turn up on brief leave and let the Perth neighbors goggle at his strapping, soldierly bearing and his fierce military mustache. His father, old Bill Hutton, a railroad worker, seldom failed to point out the framed certificate on the wall awarding young...
...Howard died before one of his plays could be produced. Behrman quit because he shrank from the managerial decisions imposed by the system. Composer Kurt Weill joined, but that still left the company with only three dramatists- and a lagging output. This season, however, the Playwrights have a real prospect of getting new blood: Garson Kanin (whose new play is on their current schedule), Ruth Gordon and Thornton Wilder...