Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson has on several previous occasions used such words as negotiation in reference to what the U.S. should do about Communism. Last May he deplored the prospect of a political campaign in which possible U.S. concessions would not be discussed. To date, he has not indicated what these concessions might...
...Britain and France, proposing a Big Four conference, not later than October, on the question of an all-German government and a German peace treaty. This was the latest of many Kremlin attempts to weaken the alignment of the Bonn government with the West by holding up the illusory prospect of "unification." More & more Germans are waking up to the fact that the only unity Russia really wants for Germany is the graveyard unity of total Soviet control...
...Southern leaders say that they might "go fishing" on election day. One such is Texas' Governor Allan Shivers who is deeply disturbed by the Democratic stand in favor of federal control of tidelands. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd has not announced his support of the ticket. The prospect: little help for Stevenson from Byrd...
...long history as a feast-or-famine business, the sugar industry has developed a quick defensive reflex: the minute prices weaken, the growers cut production. This year, a record world sugar output of 44.4 million tons is expected to top demand by 2,500,000 tons. Faced with the prospect of falling prices, such big sugar producers as Cuba and Puerto Rico are planning a slash of 20% to 30% in their 1953 output...
...picked him hope that Northern liberals will accept him despite his stand against civil rights legislation, and that uncompromising Southern conservatives will not consider him a traitor. He has been straddling the gap inside the Democratic Party of the South for so long that he was a natural prospect for the wider straddle required by the national situation of the Democratic Party. Sparkman, in fact, is so resolute a compromiser that it takes a political micrometer to tell just where he stands...