Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the prospect of admitting a smaller number of seasoned Fellows is weighed against taking in larger numbers of greener ones, the benefits are not great enough to recommend this juggling as anything but a last resort...
...early prospect for Secretary of Agriculture had been Representative Clifford Hope, Ike's able campaign adviser on farm policy. Eisenhower and his advisers, however, decided it would be unwise to lose him as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee (a job he will hold next January). Hope's successor would have been Minnesota's August Andresen, who represents a dairy state and might therefore antagonize grain farmers who suspect all dairymen of trying to lower grain prices. Ike's final choice: Ezra Taft Benson, a Utah marketing expert...
Bargains & Coups. After surveying the U.S. and Canada, De Golyer decided that the best prospects for Amerada were in Texas. But only U.S.-owned companies could drill there. So the Cowdray family split its 60% ownership in half, and let Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co. sell half the stock on the U.S. market at $26 a share.* Amerada went into Texas and found oil from the start. With their growing geophysical skill, Jacobsen and De Golyer were so confident of finding oil that when Louisiana Land & Exploration asked them to "shoot" (i.e., prospect) its holdings along the Louisiana...
Earlier this month, McCloy had been mentioned prominently as a prospect for General Eisenhower's Cabinet...
...assume that the Germans are out for a bargain, namely that they be allowed to relapse into some kind of nationalism, and in turn would be willing to cooperate in military matters. The truth is that almost the entire German people take a rather dim view of the prospect of again having to join some kind of military force and that therefore the basic factor of the bargain does not apply...