Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others, thinks that if it could build three big plants in a row, it could learn enough to produce competitive power. But G.E. has no plans at the moment. As one reactor builder says: "Private industry has found that there is no money in atomic energy and no prospect of making any money...
...both countries have come close to achieving in the laboratory the energy-releasing atomic fusion that produces the radiance of the sun-the same fusion that, man-made but uncontrolled, provides the vast destructive might of H-bombs (see SCIENCE). Wrapped up in the scientific terminology was the prospect that mankind will one day be able to live in a world where power, the basic ingredient of an industrial civilization, will be unlimited...
...clear the way for an Alaska statehood bill. (Southerners still suspect that any new Democratic Senators from Alaska may vote against them in civil rights.) The Republicans are for statehood, thanks partly to the popularity of Alaska's energetic young (38) Republican Governor Mike Stepovich, and the prospect that Alaskan Senators might turn out to be Republican after all. Informal polls in both House and Senate show that the Alaska statehood votes are in the majority. The balmy territory of Hawaii, once considered the hottest prospect for statehood, will probably be left out in the cold this session...
AGRICULTURE Prospect: Foot-Dragging
Looking ahead, the U.S.'s best intermediate-range prospect is the Navy's experimental solid-charge, 1,500-mile Lockheed Polaris, designed to be fired from surface vessels or nuclear submarines. Polaris' solid charge, a slow-burning chemical compound, makes Polaris the U.S.'s first "second-generation" long-range ballistic missile; the solid charge will be easier, simpler, faster to handle than present types of liquid fuel. Polaris, the first true pushbutton IRBM in sight, is lighter and smaller, so cannot pack as heavy a warhead as Jupiter and Thor. Its ultimate success will depend...