Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month interval, a lot had happened to Jack Soble, 53, and his Russian-born wife, 53 (TIME, Feb. 4). They found out that while they were spying, the FBI had been on their trail. And when they faced the prospect that the Justice Department's case against them might well be unbeatable, they had to face up to the grim fact that in 1954 Congress raised the maximum penalty for peace time espionage from 20 years' imprisonment to death...
...prospect of gradually losing at least part of approximately 500 million dollars in annual income from U.S. troops...
...House has slashed 1 1/4 billion dollars from the budget requests and more cuts are in prospect...
Britain's most sweeping peacetime reorganization calls for drastic overhauls in weapon research, air force techniques, and naval operations. With the hydrogen bomb in prospect, Britain intends to carry forth nuclear research, particularly in atomic missiles where she hopes to develop a "second generation" of rockets while receiving the presently less-advanced U.S. weapons already in production. They hope that this ground-to-air missile system will eventually replace R.A.F. manned fighters. On the seas, carrier task forces supported by light cruisers will comprise the fleet as the heavy cruisers are retired to the scrap pile...
Another ally that F-M's management is counting on is time. Claiming that Penn-Texas now owes more than $22 million for F-M stock, the Morsemen say that Silberstein has nothing to show for it so far except the prospect of a long legal battle. Moreover, the fight has done Penn-Texas no good financially. While 1956 net income totaled $7,074,000, some $4,846,000 was from nonrecurring items such as the sale of plants (later leased back) to raise cash for F-M stock purchases. The company's true net income (not counting...