Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Substantial payments should be made on the debt. "If the Government does not reduce the public debt during the most active and inflationary periods, there is little prospect of material reduction at any time...
Nobody paid much mind to Manager Billy Southworth when he sounded off about Spahn in Florida: "He'll win 20; he'll be one of the best." Every manager has a right to talk that way about a prospect in training and, besides, wasn't this guy a lefthander? By this week, Warren Spahn was making other National League managers sit up and take notes on him, and making Southworth look very right indeed...
...resigned from the coalition Cabinet, formed a Cabinet without the left, chiefly because U.S. policy had given him the courage of his convictions, i.e., that a democrat has no business collaborating with Communists. The U.S. put a premium on formation of a non-Communist Cabinet (by holding out the prospect of a commerce and friendship treaty, thawing Italian assets...
...harbor last week with her holds filled with 2,500,000 fifths of Scotch whiskey. It was the largest single shipment in seven years. Britain is planning to increase her Scotch production and exports to boost her dollar balances, and many other such shipments will soon follow. But this prospect brought no cheers from liquor retailers, many of whom are caught with supplies of high-priced Scotch in their cellars...
...July 1, could be used immediately, and 2) another stamp for ten pounds-bringing the year's total ration so far up to 35 pounds per user-will be validated Aug. 1. "If recent improvements continue," it added, "a moderate increase above the 35-lb. figure is in prospect...