Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Customer's Right. In Hartford, Conn., the two salesmen hawking $2 automobile emergency lights to employees in the State Office Building did a booming business until they barged into the "Sales and Use Division" where an unimpressed prospect made them buy a sales permit and a $50 bond...
...just as well known to him as it is to the editor. More often, the reader wants to know where and how the event fits. TIME aims to tell the man who came late to the ball game what the score is, who made the runs, and how the prospect looks. Nobody is on time for all the ball games...
During a flight of eloquence in the House of Commons on the prospect of increased duck production, Sidney Dye, Labor member for Norfolk South-West, last week declared: "Ducks greedily devour wireworms and leather jackets, thus ridding the soil of these pests. It may well be that those who eat the ducks can readily assimilate the robust characteristics of these other creatures. If so, may I commend to His Majesty's Ministers the value of ducks and green peas for a regular place in their diet...
...Bamangwato don't object to a white consort and the prospect of half-breed succession," boomed the London Times sternly, "it would not seem to be for the imperial government, pledged before nations to respect equal rights of all races, to overrule them in their own domestic concerns. There, if principle were to prevail over expediency, should be an end of the argument...
...course that was still left open to him. Shaking his finger with mild indignation at the union and the operators, he asked Congress for authority to seize the mines. The power he asked for could put the mines under Government ownership until July 1, 1951. With such a chilling prospect before the operators, Lewis knew that all he had to do was sit back until they came to him. He knew furthermore that the operators' united front was cracking. His strategic waiting game...