Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHAT kind of U.S. economy will a youngster now getting ready for college find when he gets out? What is the prospect...
...astonishing rise in General Dynamics stock is due to many factors, including the romance of atomic energy (the world's second atomic submarine, General Dynamics' Sea Wolf, is under construction by the company), the prospect of big, new orders for Convair's intercontinental ballistic missile, Atlas, and rumors of new mergers in the works. The most recent rumor, that General Dynamics would merge with destroyer-building Bath Iron Works, was denied by both companies. But Wall Streeters are sure that more, and bigger, mergers are on the way, since Hopkins is always looking for likely prospects...
...each are supposed to be Renaissance characters, and that's not good at all. Had Colgate Salsbury, for example, been allowed to be variations on Monteverdi all evening, as the introduction promised, the cumbersome charades might have had more point. As it was, they were discarded whenever a brighter prospect for a song or laugh presented itself and resurrected when the authors would settle for a routine smile: "I'm getting tired of these parties, the same old people, the same old drinks, and on the phonograph, last year's Gregorian chants...
...ROAD PROGRAM has hit a dead end. The plan to raise cash from bonds issued by a separate Government corporation and thus keep from raising the national debt was attacked by conservative Democrats as "financial legerdemain." The Administration is now resigned to the prospect that its $101 billion, ten-year highway program will be sharply scaled down. Nevertheless, chances are that the final bill will call for federal spending considerably above the present $6 billion a year. To help pay the bill, the 2?-a-gal. federal gasoline tax may be hiked...
...needs a more effective and better integrated policy for selling its agricultural surpluses abroad. To this end, both Secretary Benson and General Foods' ex-Chairman Clarence Francis, head of a surplus disposal committee, are hard at work. But with farm output steadily rising throughout the world, the prospect is growing dimmer and dimmer that the answer to the U.S. surplus problem is the disposal of food abroad...