Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threat has not been removed and the Regents show no intention of doing so. The present prospect of the relationship between Texas and the Texan was described by the head of the school of journalism as a "partnership...
...Russians, who are supplying him with arms from the Czech armament factories. The Russians offered to lend Egypt $300 million for 30 years at 2% interest, promised to complete the dam in six years instead of the 15 estimated by Western engineers. Nasser confided to U.S. officials that the prospect of having an army of Communist engineers in Egypt pleased him no more than it pleased the West. Still, the threat served him well. Last week in Cairo, Premier Nasser and World Bank President Black sat down to take another look at the Aswan dam project...
...week's best prospect was Ferenc Molnar's The Good Fairy, produced by Maurice Evans on Hallmark Hall of Fame (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). For a while it looked as if three expert players could bring off the tender, sophisticated, 25-year-old Hungarian fantasy about a "little glowworm" usherette (Julie Harris) who wants to be a good fairy to a highly moral but impoverished lawyer (Walter Slezak), is pursued by an immensely wealthy but engagingly unethical Lothario (Cyril Ritchard), and winds up in the arms of her own true love. But in a quarter of a century...
Shipping. The committee saw little prospect for atomic dry-cargo freighters or passenger liners. Because of long layovers in ports, the savings in fuel would not offset the bigger cost. But huge oil tankers, which turn around fast, would find atomic power profitable. If the Maritime Administration is ready to subsidize atomic tankers as replacements for all the big, U.S.-owned tankers that will become obsolescent by 1965, the atomic-propulsion industry can expect $3 billion in orders from shipbuilders alone...
...Financier Leopold D. Silberstein, Fairbanks, Morse & Co. looked like a fine prospect for the type of proxy fight that won him Niles-Bement-Pond (TIME, July 25). One of the top makers of diesel locomotives, generators and pumps, Fairbanks, Morse earned $2,478,198 in 1954 on sales of $108 million. But after Silberstein started moving in three weeks ago. Wall Streeters predicted that he would have a tough time overcoming the 30% stock control of the Morse family and management...