Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...
Guard: Roger Davis, 21, Syracuse; 6 ft. 3 in., 228 lbs. Major: physical education. "No. 1 prospect on the No. 1 team, tremendous offensive blocker with enough speed to make tackles all over the field. Could go as linebacker or defensive...
After the meeting, McElroy told newsmen that the Air Force and Navy would each be cut by 5,000 men next year. Almost casually, he raised the NATO-jarring prospect of eventual reduction of the U.S.'s 650,000-man forces overseas. "It is possible over a period of time that other NATO countries will increase their contributions of strength, and that they may come to the conclusion that it might be to their own advantage that we deploy forces elsewhere." But such a decision, McElroy indicated happily, would fall in some future budget maker...
...steel now coming from the mills as a hedge against resumption of the strike. "While I have not abandoned hope that a settlement will be reached before the 80-day injunction expires, nevertheless I must advise you in all candor that at the present writing no settlement is in prospect...
Nevertheless, the prospect of a faster flow of steel was causing steel-short manufacturing plants to revise their production schedules. Ford Motor Co.. which ha been running most of its 17 assembly plants on a four-day basis, will step up to five-day operations this week without fear of exhausting its stockpile. General Motors, which is altogether shut down made plans to start recalling workers within two weeks, hoped to be back in limited production in three weeks...