Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON editorial advances a realistic and healthy point of view; i.e., that over-speculation on the prospect of a theatre is unwise in terms of the present war situation. However, the enthusiasm of Archibald MacLeish is to be commended. MacLeish, a Yale man, has been on the Harvard faculty for a year and a half, and yet he has had the interest and fortitude to advance, for the first time in concrete terms, an enthusiasm that recognizes Harvard's need for a theatre. This is itself is heartening...
...even possible, for the University in the next few years. If the draft bites heavily into College enrollment over the summer, many projects will probably have to be reconsidered, and it is unlikely that a theatre could survive a general retrenchment. But whatever happens, drama enthusiasts here have little prospect of an early solution to their difficulties...
Nobody sees any prospect of uniting Protestantism and Catholicism, but many a Protestant is hopeful that Protestants can and will unite. In a new book out this week, On This Rock (Harper; $1.50), Methodism's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam writes...
...must import most of its industrial raw materials, even depends on outside sources for 20% of its food. Southeast Asia can supply part of Japan's new material needs, but the loss of access to North China's coal and iron has dimmed Japan's industrial prospect...
Moreover, Aramco preferred to make a generous deal now-and win the prospect of a long period of good feeling-rather than to haggle and build up resentment. It had not forgotten that accumulated resentment caused Mexico to expropriate U.S. oil companies in 1938. It also knew that Jersey Standard's generous 1945 settlement with Venezuela had built immense good will. Ibn Saud also was shrewd enough to learn his own lesson from the Mexican affair: Mexico's oil production plummeted after it drove the U.S. companies out. And Ibn Saud, with no one else to turn...