Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sustain current levels of business activity there is need for greater consumption by the public, as well as increased capital expenditures by business or enlarged exports. . . . Before the war started the business outlook was good, but the speculative price and inventory activity of the past month has endangered this prospect...
...With the prospect of almost nothing to do anyhow, the Foreign Office almost unanimously struck. The Cabinet was not impressed. Most of the diplomatic corps, including Ambassadors in London and Washington, protested. The Cabinet held firm. And so, last week, the 113 dissidents handed in their resignations...
...Director Ralph Thompson Hinton announced that the epidemic was finally cleaned up and that peace had returned to Manteno. The toll: 384 stricken, 47 dead. Engineers, examining the miles of Manteno sewers, suspected a small leak in the tiles, believed that contaminated water had seeped into the wells. Prospect was that Manteno would either build a filtration plant on the grounds or start piping water from Kankakee's safe water supply ten miles away...
...There is not the remotest prospect of peace in the near future," declared William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, in a recent interview. He did, though, allow for two possibilities of peace if the European situation were to change radically...
This leaves as probable starters Goldthwaite, at blocking back, where he showed to advantage against Exeter, Loring at wingback in place of Lyle, Whittier probably at bucking back, and, it is hoped, McNicol at tailback. McNicol has progressed rapidly and is the outstanding prospect after the first three weeks...