Word: foresaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago. As last-quarter auto statistics flowed into head offices, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Rambler and Chrysler last week found that they had achieved alltime highs. And Ward's Automotive Reports predicted that production in January would be the best in two years. U.S. Steel's Roger Blough foresaw the steel industry entering 1962 on what he called "the strongest order and production note in two years." During January steel mills will be at 85% of capacity (v. 50% a year ago). Sales of appliances, gasoline and housing are all expected to increase by 4% in 1962-and these...
Even then, Jones foresaw sharply increased Pentagon pressure for higher performance, and sharply increased competition among companies for the defense dollar. How could relatively small Northrop prosper? One answer, Jones concluded, was to concentrate on making selected parts rather than entire systems: "Whatever we could do exceedingly well, we would exploit; whatever we were second best in, we would drop...
...CRIMSON bore malice to the system, and looked with democratic indignation at the "aristocratic tendencies" of Lowell House high table. In the early morning of 1932, when almost all the House units were already under way, the CRIMSON ridiculed the fad for House colors and emblems, and sarcastically foresaw "heraldic rabbits cavorting on Leverett pajamas...
...with Harvard able to admit only 30 per cent of its candidates. Bender foresaw an end to the meteoric rise in applications that marked his tenure, because of discouragement on the part of students, schools, and alumni workers. Last spring his prediction came true...
Pinched Pentagon. In April, Kennedy was even prepared to fire Army General Lyman ("Lena") Lemnitzer, the tradition-bound chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The President was ready to give the job to Taylor. But Politician Kennedy quickly foresaw the outcry that would surely roil both the Pentagon and Capitol Hill; he decided instead to put Taylor on his personal staff...