Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money market as tight as his credit-pinching had created. Humphrey might have had to boost interest rates even more to raise such huge amounts. The credit expansion would not only create almost the identical amount banks may need to finance new-money bond issues; the prospect also stiffened the prices of both Government and corporate bonds. The Government's 2½% bonds rose a full point, and Humphrey's new 3¼% bonds rose to par for the first time in six weeks...
...Chase Aircraft for design and engineering (Kaiser still has subcontracts for plane parts). Whether Kaiser could keep Willow Run going was anybody's guess. There was talk that the plant might start producing parts for Willys Motors (which Kaiser bought for $62 million two months ago). But that prospect was small consolation. In the first half of this year. Kaiser made $2,507,000 working on C-119's and C-123's. But he dropped $8,540,000 making autos...
This attempt to work out a bill that will please or almost please everyone is the chief reason for delay in charting the Administration line on Taft-Hartley changes. The clear prospect this week: there will be no congressional action on the labor law until next year...
Poet Paul Claudel: "I believe that I shall have the strength to turn down the seductive prospect of cremation. The question reminds me of the story about a British statesman whose mother-in-law had died in Argentina. He received a cable asking what should be done with the body-'Bury her or cremate her?' He cabled back: 'Both. Take no chances...
Adenauer's Nightmare. But the Kremlin's new rulers, shrewdly turning necessity into advantage, and defense into offense, had also made the most dramatic maneuver yet in their global peace offensive. One obvious intention: to make the prospect of German unity seem so real that the bulk of West Germany's 30 million voters this September will oust the government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who opposes unification until West Germany is rearmed and allied to NATO...