Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombers and 579 jet fighters. Of the $1 billion thus saved, about $250 million will go into orders for the U.S.A.F.'s new supersonic fighter, the F-100. The remaining $750 million will be held over for use in fiscal 1955, when another budget cut is in prospect...
...planet that looks pale red to the naked eye. If rocket riders ever get to Mars, says Dr. Strughold, the first explorer to return will be able to report "whether he finds an exotic vista of living things, burgeoning luxuriously by processes unknown to us, or a simple prospect of humble lichens, reviving and declining with the seasons...
California's William Fife Knowland, hand-picked for acting majority leader by Taft, was the leading prospect to succeed him. Last week he convinced Senate Republican leaders that a successor to Taft should be elected quickly to quash talk about party disunity...
Nothing makes the sick U.S. coal industry sicker than the prospect of a new wage demand by John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers. Last week, with the time for reopening of negotiations only a few days away, Joseph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Producers Association, gave Lewis an angry warning...
...place while one looks helplessly on ... More effectively than anything else, [the BBC monopoly] enables those set in authority to impose on the rest of us a pattern of thought and of feeling ... I must confess that escape, even into the arms of J. Fred Muggs, is a delectable prospect...