Word: prospect
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Although the primary will be considered an important test of prestige between Stevenson and Kefauver, most Floridians seem to share Farmer Goodson's expressed indifference. The prospect is for a light vote of between 300,000 and 500,000 (as against the 840,000 ballots cast in the May 8 gubernatorial primary...
This year speculators who gambled on rising copper prices made even fatter killings than they had in the uranium boom a year ago. New Jaculet, one copper prospect that sold for as little as 13? last year, soared to $2.15 in April. In twelve months Opemiska went from $3.75 to $19.50; Consolidated Halliwell shot from 44? to $3.75 this year. Brokers, also, have made record profits this year-and, like all Canadians, pay no capital-gains taxes on their market profits...
Fortnight ago, Trebilcock persuaded the board of governors to buy a site (price: $1,750,000) on which to build a new exchange, with half again as much trading space as the New York Exchange. Though brokers grumbled at the prospect of shifting from Bay Street to Toronto Street, three blocks away, they were already boasting that the new building would be the world's most efficient stock exchange...
...boyish, bow-tied Governor G. (for Gerhard) Mennen Williams, who has been in the statehouse longer than any previous Michigan governor, announced last week that he will seek a fifth two-year term. "Soapy" Williams is obviously serious about running for reelection, but is not likely to let the prospect stand in his way if lightning should strike at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next August. With Michigan's delegates planning to offer their 45-year-old governor as something more than just a favorite-son candidate, Williams has said that he feels "no compelling urge...
There is a stronger possibility that the G.O.P. may give him some headaches at home. Leading prospect for the Republican nomination for governor is Detroit's Mayor Albert E. (for Eugene) Cobo, 62, who has been elected in nonpartisan contests to seven terms as city treasurer and three as mayor. Cobo's supporters think that the popular mayor, who has always pulled a big vote in Democratic Detroit despite the opposition of Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers, might cut into the heart of Governor Williams' strength...