Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Carter Vincent hiss and steam on the back of the stove. Dean Acheson wanted to promote him from his job as U.S. Minister to Switzerland, make him Ambassador to Costa Rica. But an ambassador must be confirmed by the Senate, and the White House did not relish the prospect of another airing of Vincent's record. Items: during his years (1945-4?) as director of the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs, he 1) assiduously promoted an anti-Chiang policy that played right into Mao's hands; 2) rewrote, with Acheson's approval...
Later he told a meeting of Peronista women that their party constituted "a new political force in Argentina" and that "when women begin to vote, they will take their place also in public office." Red-hot prospect for the first woman to take office: Eva Perón, as Vice President...
...school in Jamaica Plain, Turnquist handled the housebreaking a little differently. Reasoning that a dog is basically a clean animal, he developed a glorified barrel-doghouse and called it Kanine Kastle. The dog was confined to the barrel except for short walks at regular intervals. Faced with the prospect of living and sleeping in any mess he made, the dog quickly adjusted his system to a normal routine...
...most Americans, the phrase "built like a Mack truck" conveys a feeling of strength and solidity. Founded by three machinist-blacksmiths and wagonmakers in 1900, Mack Trucks, Inc. made the first gas-driven bus (for sightseeing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park), the first motor-driven hook & ladder. Mack soon became the leader in the heavy truck industry; year after year its earnings were good, its dividends fat. But in 1949 the oldest truckmaker in the U.S. no longer seemed to be built like a Mack. Sales were well down from 1947's peacetime peak of $124 million...
Under existing customs and regulations, the Army unit would allow only first-term freshmen to enter the program, and stuck to that requirement until a Student Council Committee on R.O.T.C. made its report two weeks ago. In that report, the committee noted increased R.O.T.C interest at Harvard and the prospect of a large drop in the College's tuition income next year, and made several recommendations to expand Army R.O.T.C. here...