Word: foresaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work at 8:30 a.m., systematically budgeted every day's time. Master of every brokerage trick, he drove himself unsparingly through the corporate intricacies of rubber, nickel, public utilities, sugar and oil. He amazed associates by his instantaneous decisions, nettled callers by clipping their conversation short when he foresaw their missions. Partner Stone was silent from the start. Banker Hayden never cultivated an assistant. Until he was stricken last month, he ran his own labyrinthine business by himself, piled up 89 directorships, 58 of which he still held at the time of his death, ranked as a prime Wall...
...filled the land with glass enclosed, pin-studded playing fields for plunger-driven, hovering little balls. At last week's convention the term "slot machine" was banned.* Taking their cue from the degrees of interest shown by the public in their exhibits, the coin machine manufacturers last week foresaw the passing of Bagatelle, increasing popularity for new bowling (Skee-ball), ray shooting and baseball games, games that actually play. Most impressive of these was Inventor Frank Train's robot checker player, a 7-ft., 650-lb. aluminum "Magic Brain'' which has been touring the country...
Cynical Philadelphians foresaw a fight to have the indictments quashed, scant possibility of convictions, much less of prison sentences, if & when the cases come to trial. Much talk about political spite work behind the indictments rose from the Union League and Rittenhouse clubs. And the Republican Ledger sprang to the bankers' defense with a story reporting the indictments under the head: ACCUSED DENIED RIGHT TO EXPLAIN IN MORTGAGE QUIZ...
Last week the doctors at Coronado feared that this proposal would become law. They foresaw more financial troubles for private hospitals and for themselves, poorer medical service by & large for the State's inhabitants. But they could agree on no procedure to avert the blow...
Their defense of a practice which has been generally condemned by public and private authorities was hardly strengthened by the fact that Messrs. Grace & Irvin flatly contradicted each other in their opinion of what would happen to the steel industry if the basing point system were disturbed. Mr. Irvin foresaw a dire collapse in steel prices, fearful mortality among small steel companies. Mr. Grace blandly declared: "Doing away wim the basing point system would increase prices through a decrease in competition...