Word: prospect
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Iran's wily Premier Mohammed Mossadegh gave a glaring example of this technique. He boastfully accepted the prospect of national bankruptcy involved in his stubborn refusal to negotiate with the British on compensation for oil nationalization. But he expected the U.S. to bail him out when the going got tough. A month ago he wrote a threatening letter to President Eisenhower...
...White House promptly passed three of the four names along to the Senate. The fourth nominee, Olander, was stricken with last-minute doubts about whether he wanted the job after all. Last week the Senate Labor Committee approved Rothman, and quick approval of Hobart and Miller was in prospect...
Dangers of the Amendment. Alarmed at the prospect of reform-by-treaty, or revolution-by-treaty, a Seattle lawyer named Frank E. Holman, then president of the American Bar Association, set out five years ago on a crusade to save the Constitution by amending its treaty-power provisions. Among the allies he enlisted was Senator Bricker, who introduced his now-famed resolution in September 1951, and reintroduced it in the first days of the 83rd Congress...
Saddle for a Cow. The prospect before Ulbricht is not at all the way Marx or Lenin or Stalin or Ulbricht had planned it. Before World War II ended, the Soviet master plan for Germany was drawn up and working. Roughly, it was laid out in three stages. Stage One: milk the occupation zone of Germany of all the industrial plants, tools, raw materials, foodstuffs and talent (i.e., top scientists and technicians) that could be transferred to war-damaged Russia. Stage Two: Bolshevize all means of material existence, and force-build agricultural East Germany into a workshop for Russia...
...flaxseed. Soybean oil, at 11? a Ib. v. 15? for cottonseed oil, has captured most of the market for margarine, salad dressings and shortening. While lower cottonseed prices might slow down soybean sales, the Agriculture Department hopes that demand for both will pick up. Some bullish factors: 1) the prospect of marketing quotas on the 1954 cotton crop...