Word: foresaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...control of Consolidated Co. Most important item for any hydro-electric development is a good market for its product. Expensive to build, big power dams must be able to sell electricity readily or their overhead charges eat up all profit. Safe Harbor dam was not begun until its sponsors foresaw the electrification of the Pennsylvania Railroad from New York to Washington. Last week Aldred & Co. were able to announce the largest single power contract in U. S. history when Safe Harbor got an order from Pennsylvania to supply current for its lines from the east bank of the Susquehanna into...
...dropped into a bakery one night and bought great sticks of French bread. How his future wife laughed at him loafing up the street. This is all old stuff. His political and diplomatic career is also well enough known in the casual way. Everyone knows, that he foresaw the United States at Albany. There are countless stories of his graceful mots when he bowed low in the court of France. School boys are raised on the story of the kite...
...surveyed the decision, found it to his liking. The Commission, by denying the horizontal increase (which might diverge more freight from the roads than the benefits would compensate for), felt that the lines "had been saved from the consequences of a mistake." Professor Ripley foresaw "a distinct betterment of outlook for the future." Others thought otherwise. Liberal Walter Lippmann colyumed in the New York Herald Tribune: "The Commission has evidently tried to select particular commodities, which either have not fallen in price as much as others or are so bulky and necessary that they have to be carried on railroads...
Critics of the Navy's lighter-than-air policy, notably the New York Sun, made much of the facts that the Akron is 20,000 Ib. overweight and that she can fly only 79 m.p.h. instead of 84, as specified. Of the overweight, Navy & builders replied that they foresaw and announced it last summer (TIME, July 20); that it was caused by deliberate increase of strength and safety factor, partly by changes in Navy specifications; that it amounts to only 3% of the total weight and will not materially affect the ship's performance. The $25,000 penalty...
...Carmona of Portugal took public note that the Portuguese escudo is pegged to sterling, recalled how lucrative are Portugal's sales (of Port wine, etc.) to Britain, made clear that the escudo will cling to the pound. This worried Spaniards. They sell to Britons sherry, etc. Anxiously Madrid foresaw that Portugal, by letting her escudo slide with sterling, will be able to offer drink, etc. to thirsty Britons cheaper than Spain, whose peseta is semi-stabilized on a gold basis. Gold Standard-"Cross of Gold?" Sacrosanct to most bankers though the Gold Standard is, rumblings came from some quarters...