Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote Denham bluntly: ". . . You have now seen fit to request my resignation forthwith. In obedience to your wishes I feel I must comply." In a stiff little note of reply, the President explained that he saw no prospect of restoring a "harmonious relationship" between Counsel Denham and the board. Harry Truman accepted the resignation as of the close of the following business...
...power. A substantial U.S. military commitment in Berlin and on the Elbe would give them, and all Europeans, the feeling that "then everything would be different." Instead of a German and European Dunkirk and then a dreary war of liberation all over again, there would be at least the prospect of stopping the Communist push as soon as it started. And out of the common defense could rise a mighty, cohesive, free Atlantic community. This was the prospect for which West Germany's leaders were striving...
Furthermore, the prospect was that tax receipts would continue to increase, even under current rates. Washington's economists have long estimated that every $10 billion increase in the gross national product results in slightly more than a $2 billion increase in Treasury's tax revenues. In a year, the gross national product has soared $14.7 billion (to a rate of $270 billion annually), enough to add nearly $3 billion to the Treasury's purse. Under the new tax law the increase will be even faster. If the gross national product keeps climbing-and there is no reason...
...House Appropriations Committee, for which he spoke, had already approved the outlay. In addition, the committee had approved another $4 billion for the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to Europe, plus other million-dollar odds & ends for such things as the Voice of America ($77 million). The whole bill in prospect totaled another $16.7 billion...
...This reversed his pre season rating of Middleground at 126 Ibs., Hil Prince at 124. *On the eve of the 1949 Kentucky Derby, which Calumet Trainer Ben Jones won with Ponder, a TIME correspondent asked Jones which of his two-year-olds he thought might be his best Derby prospect in 1950. Jones guessed that All Blue might be (TIME, May 30, 1949). Although he came around too late to run in any of the triple crown events, All Blue is now the best three-year-old in Calumet's barn...