Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genuinely enjoys some important aspects of his job, e.g., communication with the people through the televised press conference. If he could spot a successor who would carry on the Eisenhower program, and who could win the election, he would like to retire. But the most likely prospect is that circumstances, including the lack of a likely successor and the pleas of G.O.P. leaders, will cause him to run again. Said a knowing Republican last week: "He just could not take it-sitting up there in Gettysburg and watching Adlai Stevenson or Averell Harriman unraveling everything he's just...
Economist Burns served notice that the Eisenhower Administration is ready to curb credit in housing, the stock market or automobiles to nip any speculative boom. Burns also tossed off a veiled hint that the prospect of tax cuts next year depends on a sharp cut in Government spending. Said he: "Balancing the budget is imperative in a time of high prosperity." Signs of high prosperity seemed to be everywhere last week...
...years after the Lucas gusher blew in, Pattillo Higgins worked to develop Texas oil lands, made a comfortable living at it, although he never became the big oil baron that he might have been. Through the years, he never lost his urge to prospect for oil. When he was nearly 90, he was still setting out in his old model A with pick and shovel, to probe among the rocks...
...gave her a platonic squeeze. This week Coward will begin a month's run in a Las Vegas pleasure dome at a reported $40,000 a week (a figure which probably, like many in the Nevada resort, is not entirely real). Entertainer Coward, 55, was "enchanted" by the prospect of bringing British culture to the Wild West. Burbled he of Las Vegas: "It's a combination of a gold rush and a honky-tonk...
...boom was due to the Conservative Party victory and the prospect of more encouragement of private enterpirise. Actually, the London market had anticipated the election's outcome, had begun to move upward (from about 183) three weeks before the nation went to the polls. What surprised both Britons and Americans was that the market kept rising in the face of a paralyzing national railway strike (see FOREIGN NEWS). Most financial and political experts, trying to explain this paradox, calculated that one big factor was an end to Labor's threat to renationalize steel and long-distance trucking, nationalize...