Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Pull. All-out mobilization, while easier, is not what the U.S. requires for the long, long arms-production pull that may be in prospect. All-out mobilization makes sense only in a general war or after a decision to go to war, whether the enemy attacks or not. The U.S. has not and will not make that decision...
Their belated strike will net the Chamberlains an estimated total of $60,000 in royalties. Another 15 wells, enough to make them millionaires if all come in, can be drilled on their 640-acre farm. But the prospect of wealth failed to excite William Chamberlain, now 81, and his wife, 72. "Excitement is for young folks," Mrs. Chamberlain said wistfully. "What we could have done if the oil well had come in years ago!" Other Albertans pondered, too. The province's roaring oil boom, touched off by discoveries in the Leduc area in 1947, might have got rolling...
Three admissions officials, Eric Cutler '40, assistant secretary of the Alumni Association, David D. Henry '41, assistant to the Committee on Admissions, and Graham W. Taylor '49, director of Student Employment, briefed the undergraduate screeners at an afternoon session last Tuesday. They emphasized that the term "good prospect" meant more than a good athlete...
When possible, the instructions indicate, the undergraduates will work through local Harvard Clubs. The screeners are expected to find out a prospect's marks, financial condition, activities, athletic talents, reputation with his classmates, and reputation with his faculty...
...symbol of the occupation), the Imperial Hotel, the Ernie Pyle Theater and a host of lesser buildings and facilities in the Tokyo area. Even more important, particularly in the Orient where the word itself is anathema, the Army wants complete extraterritoriality for its military and civilian personnel. The prospect of such privileges led one member of the Japanese House of Councilors to speak of "a new occupation...