Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting past Dan Reed. Dan offered one possible compromise: extend EPT just three months, to Oct. 1, and then cut EPT and personal income taxes together (three months ahead of Administration schedule). The Administration cocked an anxious ear because it looked more and more as if there were no prospect of getting all the way across Reed's bridge...
...replace General Omar N. Bradley [as chairman], the top prospect is Admiral Arthur William Radford, naval aviator and commander of the Pacific Fleet . . . To succeed General Joseph Lawton Collins, the President would like to name his old friend, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther . . . But Ike is said to think that NATO needs Gruenther more than it needs General Matthew Ridgway . . . Leading candidate: Ridgway. Probable choice [for Air Force Chief of Staff] : General Nathan Farragut Twining . . . Admiral William Morrow Fechteler . . . will probably be replaced as Chief of Naval Operations. Front runner for the job: Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney...
...months, the United Nations has been pursuing peace at the truce table in Korea, while the fighting has gone on. With the Communist generals calling the combat turns, the U.N. was only fending off the enemy. Time after time, the prospect of a truce seemed bright, then faded as the casualty lists inexorably grew. This week there were signs once more that a Korean truce might be a reality in a matter of days...
...truce prospect brightened once again, the U.S. grew more conscious of a basic question about the Korean situation: Under present conditions, is truce on the same side as right? It is a question which a peace-minded nation faces reluctantly. Yet it was an inevitable question once the U.S. entered a war for a moral principle and then permitted its will-to-win to be hobbled by hesitation on the battlefield and by the pressures of domestic and international politics...
BRITAIN, whose daily bread depends on worldwide trade, was mightily disturbed at the prospect of receding markets in both Asia and America. Ex-Labor Minister Harold Wilson went bustling off to Moscow in search of timber supplies for Britain's housing drive; Bevanite Sydney Silverman stayed at home and told the House of Commons that "nothing can be more ridiculous than [our] straining every nerve . . . to export goods to the one market [the U.S.] in all the world that does not need them . . . whereas all over the world there are [Communist] markets waiting . . ." Even Rab Butler, the commonsensical Tory...