Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senators were generally sympathetic, said privately that Gruenther had made the finest possible presentation of the Administration's case. But that, apparently, was not enough. Barring emergency Administration action, the prospect was that the more than $1 billion foreign-aid cut already voted by the House Foreign Affairs Committee (TIME, June 4) would probably stick when the House and Senate came to a final vote...
...shift helped spark the stock market to a sharp recovery from its long slide, pushed stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial averages to 480.63 by week's end, winning back 8.14 points and 36% of the previous week's loss. With the prospect of a further easing of credit if necessary, home builders expected at least to maintain their current rate of 1,100.000 houses annually v. 1.300,000 in 1955, perhaps even step up building a notch or two. Commerce Department figures for April also showed that while overall wholesale trade declined 3% in April...
...that the atomic bomb should be the primary weapon both for retaliation in case of a big war, or for retaliation (on enemy supply bases, training areas, etc.) in a small war. Next, the guided missile whistled into the everyday language and planning of warfare; with it came the prospect of technological unemployment-and reduced funds-for the parts of the armed services functionally tied up with the old concepts...
...public press, special inducements (tax exemptions, individual grants, free grain and flour, and bank credits of $2,500 for the building of houses and barns) were offered to peasants and workers to stake their future in the Eastern regions. Propaganda painted the effort as a "Great Adventure," the prospect as the opening of a "New Frontier." Trainloads of Russian hopefuls trekking eastward this year began what promised to be one of the great population migrations of recent times...
...ROUTE TO MOSCOW, now serviced from West only by Finns and Scandinavians, is in prospect for Pan American World Airways. On Soviets' initiative, Pan Am is dickering with Russia, hopes to start service late this year. If Reds let in Pan Am, State Department and Civil Aeronautics Board will probably grant Russia's airline Aeroflot equal landing rights...