Word: foreshadowed
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...last week's storm warnings foreshadow another economic hurricane like 1920's? If so, Macari and other forward-looking henequeneros thought they could weather it. There are new uses for Yucatán fibers in the U.S. to make up for the decreasing use of binder twine. With a little help from the industrial-minded Mexican Government, in subsidies and export-tax concessions, Yucatán's factories might get a share of such business. The serried rows of agave would still stretch green across the Yucatán flatland...
...Palm Beach, the Duke of Windsor made a remark that might just possibly foreshadow the biggest literary event since Forever Amber. He was thinking, said he, of writing his autobiography. But it might take a while: "I use the hunt-&-peck system of typing...
...dressed himself to the task of mobilizing congressional support for foreign economic policies which will implement U.S. political efforts. Senator Vandenberg's approach is realistic. He has cautioned that the U.S. is not rich enough to "become permanent almoner to the whole earth." That remark does not foreshadow a return to economic isolationism. Vandenberg well understands that the world's reconstruction needs may continue to call for U.S. sacrifices. Says he: "As much as anything, I am concerned about our own psychology, the continued reiteration of our congenital impatience...
...cannot expect for Americans and American interests in China . . . any more extensive rights and privileges or any more favorable treatment than that accorded to Chinese and Chinese interests in the United States. All plans [of the Chinese] foreshadow a trend toward close government control in all industry . . . establishment of an economy somewhere between the Soviet pattern and free enterprise...
Telephone engineers do not believe that the new system will end the need for operators; despite wide installation of local dialing systems, the telephone companies today employ more operators than ever before (because telephone use has increased). But the new device seems to foreshadow a day when men will seldom hear an operator's voice...