Word: foresight
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...Foresight. In Lamar, Colo., Carl Moore stepped into an insurance office, got a policy on his new car, stepped out, found the car had been stolen...
Osaka-born Schuichi Kusaka (TIME, Sept. 20) has my vote for a permanent position at Smith College, or any other institution that has the foresight to hire him-and I'm being trained to shoot, stab or chop Tojo's men first and talk afterward...
...Cover) Postwar planners for whom only the sky is the limit serve a great purpose. They point to the truth that Peace on this planet is indivisible. They reflect the foresight-and the insight-that some day (100 or 1,000 years from now) the human race is likely to order its affairs as one big family, happy or quarrelsome...
...record, in a battle of economies uncharted in previous U.S. history, was brilliant. His first job was to provide raw materials. With a speculator's foresight, he bought up a supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain...
...film. The picture itself is a finely tasteful, faithful biography of one of Britain's newest and least-known heroes-the late, great aircraft designer Reginald Joseph Mitchell. As designer of the tactically superior* Spitfire fighter, Mitchell was one of a few men-Churchill was another -whose foresight had much to do with saving Britain and her allies...