Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other crop reports made great expectations greater. In prospect are record yields of peaches, plums, truck produce and tobacco, near record yields of oats, rice, peanuts, potatoes, pears, grapes, cherries and sugar cane; average or better yields of hay, prunes, sugar beets and dry peas. July's milk production was up to 11,956,000,000 lbs., more than one billion higher than a ten-year (1935-44) average for the month; July egg production was up an astronomical 4,221,000,000, more than a half billion better than the ten-year average...
...British also asked all European governments through which the Jewish underground operates to help block refugee movements at their sources and at the exit ports. Governments outside the Soviet sphere promised to do what they could, but there was no prospect of help from the Soviet Union and her satellites...
...Prospect from Nanking. The Chinese National Government knew that in order to survive it had to restore China's economic life. In the areas under its control its efforts had been feeble and its failures grievous; but an overriding consideration was the fact that not even the most efficient government could have revived China as long as Communist rebel bands lay athwart the nation's main communication lines...
...Prospect from Yenan. The Communists did not want a resumption of civil war. They had even less chance than the Government of winning an outright victory. Besides, they were sitting pretty; they blocked recovery, and the Government got the blame for the result. If they were admitted to the Government, so much the better; they could increase their military power and political patronage...
...again, the overseas market is being served first. Nor is there much chance that the situation will improve in the near future, for England finds herself a debtor nation for the first time and is terribly anxious about her financial straits. A major worry of late has been the prospect that U. S. inflation will destroy whatever benefits the loan might bring by enabling England to buy far less in the U. S. with the extended credits. As a result, the price control battle in Washington has received news coverage second only to the loan in the British press...