Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the enormous surpluses on hand and the prospect of more acoming, corn and wheat futures edged up last week to new seasonal highs in the Chicago markets. And at Kansas City, No. 2 hard wheat stood at $2.32 a bushel, 12? above the support level. In short, the Commodity Credit Corp. has taken so much wheat off the markets by loans and purchases that it has, in effect, created an artificial shortage-and higher prices...
Smith's average score for the year is 283, which makes him a top prospect for next year's varsity. A week ago in the final match of the season against the Nevada University freshmen, he fired 291--his highest of the season...
Associate professors Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and Henry d. Aiken agreed last night that the prospect for western civilization is not as bleak as Assistant Professor H. Stuart Hughes thinks. In a Kirkland House Forum on Hughes' recent book, "An Essay on Our Times," both Schlesinger and Aiken declared that Hughes' diagnosis of the West represented the "failure of nerve" on the part of a few intellectuals, rather than a just observation of the current of the times...
...Bleak is the Prospect?" is the title of tonight's Kirkland House Forum at which two historians and a philosopher will discuss a book on modern world political and philosophical developments...
...noisy to-do over the exclusion of Negroes shut the National Theatre as a playhouse 19 months ago, Washington has been the only major capital in the world without a professional legitimate theater. Last week theater-loving Washingtonians celebrated the end of the stage blackout-and the heady prospect that the next few months will find two playhouses operating in the city...