Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urging dismissal of the ten other charges facing Schrunk and Crosby last week, the Oregonian countered with an editorial criticizing the "weakness of the prosecution." Both papery nonetheless gave the trials top news play. And if Oregonians were tiring of this hit-and-myth exchange, there was little prospect of relief. To be tried this fall are 114 indictments against 41 individuals (including Schrunk and Crosby), plus $1,600,000 in libel suits that Crosby has filed against the Oregonian...
...Prospect. The hottest prospect to replace the DC-3 is the $550,000 Dutch Fokker F27, a pressurized turboprop plane, whose high speed and economy is ideal for short-haul routes. Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., building the F-27 under license, already has 69 firm orders or options from U.S. lines. Flying without subsidy, the F-27 is expected to break even on a load factor of 57%. Better routing, with Civil Aeronautics Board help, could then boost feeder traffic, although many lines will still need subsidies for years to come. Even so, few feeders can raise the cash...
...proposals prompted as many questions as they answered. Reporters wanted to know whether this meant that the Administration, in view of the prospect of being able to produce a clean bomb, had changed its mind about the desirability of suspending nuclear tests even if the Russians should agree...
...court on tireless legs, belted her serves with unladylike gusto. For one giddy moment, all England hoped that a strapping (5 ft. 11 in., 155 lbs.) English schoolgirl of 16 named Christine Truman could stop Althea in the semifinals. Christine seemed to some to be the best British prospect in 20 years, but Althea was not impressed. "I'll gobble her up," she said coolly, and then did just that...
Unprofaned. In Mount Prospect, 111., officials of the Arnar-Stone Laboratories, producing drugs, looked again, decided to change the label on a recent product to Polygesic, from Damital...