Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...President Roosevelt's son John, 24, was 7.268th in the drawings, thus had some prospect of being drafted "for the Third World War" (favorite crack among high-number holders last week...
...loss of the first four men on last year's team, Barnaby is faced with the prospect of forming an almost entirely new aggregation. A quartet of veterans, however, led by Captain Don Marvin, including Sonny Lyell, Paul DeKruif, and Orme Wilson will form a workable nucleus...
...Prospect Street in Princeton is a shady avenue lined with 16 impressive clubs where upperclassmen live and move and have their meals. For 62 years now Tigertown has annually indulged in the pageantry of Bicker Week, when the clubs cull over the palpitating Sophomores for new blood-a stately procedure which the Dally Princetonian irreverently calls buffalo and twenty-three skidoo. From how on, the trustees have rules, every academically eligible Sophomore must be allowed to become a member of a club if he so wishes...
...prospect of losing another big foreign market, cotton men were naturally upset last week. But they had two compensating reflections: 1) U. S. cotton's No. 1 internationalist, quiet, aristocratic, canny William Lockhart Clayton of the cotton-broking firm of Anderson. Clayton & Co., has come out of recent anti-New Deal retirement to work for Nelson Rockefeller, coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Regulations with Latin America, the National Defense Council's agent for nudging U. S. commerce toward a hemisphere basis. Cottonmen were relieved that if defense must monkey with their crop, it would be done Will Clayton...
...possibility that Detroit technology-engineers, production men, skilled workers, perhaps machines-might be needed for Defense products, notably aircraft and tanks. In that case Detroit's 1941 models might also have to do for 1942, even 1943. But that prospect made car buyers who thought about it still more eager to buy. Every new car loses about 20% of its value simply by moving off the dealer's floor, sheds further fixed portions of its original value as each new model makes it look more out of date. If there are to be no '42s to obsolesce...