Word: farsightedness
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Thus, in a few words, Jim Adams made mincemeat of his own elaborately worked-out quota system. Privately some OPM-ites had already said there was not enough copper for essential defense and civilian needs (TIME, Aug. 18); officially, OPM had recognized an 11,000,000-ton steel shortage for...
History will decide whether the editors are right or wrong in their gauge of what must be done. But in this view the new smoky stage sets of history become a little clearer; the emerging cast of characters becomes more sharply defined. The time is the present. The time is...
Farsighted Ambassador Steinhardt had stocked "The Refuge" with food enough to last 100 days, with medical and surgical supplies. He ordered army tents, imported from the Philippines, put up under the trees. Wives and women clerks had been shipped to Sweden or Iran; some Embassy members are now on their...
> The expected East Coast oil shortage, due to the diversion of oil tankers to Britain, is one transport trouble which nobody blames on a car shortage. Last week A.A.R. offered a neat statistic: of the 150,000 U.S. tank cars, over 130,000 are owned or leased by shippers (mainly...
Before becoming one of the most useful adjuncts of the Library, the Bindery went through a long and checkered career. Two decades ago, in 1920, the Bindery had its humble beginnings with a department set up in the Widener basement for repairing damaged books. Farsighted officials realized its potentialities, and...