Word: foreshadowing
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...Things to Come. For weeks the Army & Navy had known that something Japanese was up. Seldom had the foreshadow of a great naval action been so clearly seen. U.S. and Allied reconnaissance planes constantly tabbed Japanese movements. U.S. submarines, in the role of naval cavalry, scouting while they raided, kept a steady check on the Japanese...
Advocating a future world government, Professor Pay said that the foundations of this government have already been laid in the agreements between the Poles and Czechs, and the Greeks and the Jugoslavs, which foreshadow unified military commands, single currencies, free movement between the countries, and common foreign policies...
Since this year's low, soybean prices have risen 75% to $1.70 a bushel, despite the record crop. Chief reasons: 1) demand for soybean oils in Lend-Lease's fats-for-Britain program; 2) low cotton-crop estimates foreshadow a low production of cottonseed oils. As a cash crop soybeans this year will almost equal potatoes, surpass citrus fruits, surpass in fact any other crop except the big four, cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco...
...share of strikes, and this one aroused little public outcry. But it was like no other Northwest lumber strike on record. It promised to set a new-pattern in Northwest labor relations. It threatened to isolate an extreme left-wing group of C. I. O. unions. It might even foreshadow a new period in joint A. F. of L.C. I. O. relations throughout the entire...
...Association of American Railroads flashed an order to western and southern lines to return long flat cars (used to carry heavy steel beams) to the eastern roads, where the great bulk of steel traffic originates. This may foreshadow orders for new freight cars, which take a lot of heavy steel...