Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uses. By last week aluminum had grown so plentiful that NPA began taking off some of the restrictions on its use in building, e.g., starting July 1, each builder will be allowed 250 Ibs. per quarter. Far from presaging a glut, this prospect encouraged aluminum boosters like Dick Reynolds to predict that aluminum was just beginning to tap its future markets. "For the first time," said Reynolds, "there will be enough aluminum for major potential users to consider its use on a large scale." Alcoa's President Irving White Wilson is even more optimistic. Says Wilson: "Can we sell...
...three countries in Western Europe will be temporarily safe; Spain, Switzerland, and Italy. Of these, the last is the least feasible as a point of repair, since the Communist Party inside the country is both the largest in Europe and the most active. Still, Italy is a much better prospect than either Germany or France. With Yugoslavia to act as a buffer. It is unlikely that the Russians will turn their attention to Italy before they have conquered Germany and France...
...think, ever occurred to her that she is essentially mediocre and will remain so until she learns to discipline herself. She has a smattering of many things, talks with skill, has read a scattered collection for counseling as well as for courses. But as a literature major in prospect, she had not, after four weeks of questioning, been able to get Chaucer within two centuries of his presumed time of activity on this earth...
...their lives in dazzling white salt pits, tend henequen fields and weave rope. They live in straw-roofed huts; there are no iron bars, but escape is next to impossible. In cells at Mexico City's Black Palace Prison, coldhearted murderers weep like little children at the prospect of banishment to the Three Marys...
Cape Cod is always a good prospect in the springtime, particularly since the Cape is almost free of visitors until early June. During May, beaches are deserted and boat rentals are moderate, as are bunking rates...