Word: foresight
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...great embarrassment is shortage of escort ships-due, according to Columnist Walter Lippmann, to "lack of foresight in the Navy Department." Other causes have contributed to the shortage, notably the urgent construction of other types for military purposes. The great dispute in Washington last week was whether to cut the synthetic rubber program in order to step up production of escort vessels and other material needed in the anti-submarine campaign...
...complicated as the rules for enforcing it. Partly it was the now well-known story of lack of tankers (which once brought in 95% of the East's oil and gas); partly it was new military demands in North Africa; and partly it was fumbling and lack of foresight in OPA, which should have established more drastic controls earlier in the winter. Best explanation why the action was taken now was that the East's oil and gas reserves (the amount is a military secret) were running dangerously low. OPA hoped to avert a serious crisis...
...such deep cleavage in policy, it is no wonder that America ended the ten year period engaged, in a war for which she was woefully unprepared. But in the final analysis, the entire lack of unity, as explained by the embracing foreword, was based on the gap between the foresight of the Executive and the relative caution of popular opinion. As totalitarian brutality slowly converted the American public and molded it behind its Administration, American diplomacy began to ring with the note of determination. Finally, following Pearl Harbor, isolationism, in its original shape, died, and "Peace and War" is able...
...present was much the same For three days they had watched the Army display its might on a lids-off tour arranged by Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson. Purpose: to give the U.S. a glimpse of how its war tax dollars are being spent, to inspire confidence in the foresight and energy of the men directing the war's technical side...
...Mutt" and "Bananas." A Utica ring stole 8,450 "B" and "C" books, peddled them through a long chain of New York City racketeers who kept hijacking them from each other. OPA got its first big clue from frisking a murdered gangster in Queens who had not" had the foresight to remove the cover from the stolen book in his pocket...