Word: foresight
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...wholesale prices because they began covering their needs through the first half of 1941 before price rises started. All through 1940's second half, they had manufacturers rushing delivery on the long-range orders they had placed at bargain prices. Meanwhile, department stores, who mainly had had less foresight, had to pay spot prices for rush orders in rising markets, and raise their own prices. The next question is whether Sears and Ward will have to raise their prices as they reorder in a rising market...
FRANK DAVIDSON '39, founder of the Guardian, who edited "Foresight in Foreign Affairs" two years ago, has taken time off from his work with the C.C.C. educational program to engineer a new book. This time he has teamed up with Thacher Winslow '29 administrative assistant in the N.Y.A., and collected thirteen essays dealing with what Mrs. Roosevelt calls in her foreword "one of the most vital problems of our society"--the problem of meeting the threat to democracy growing out of a jobless, drifting, and disillusioned generation of young Americans...
When Lindbergh speaks he does so with the understanding, wisdom and foresight of a Lincoln...
...Bullitt minced no monosyllables. What he saw was the need for desperate haste. He quoted Hitler's handwriting on the democracies' wall: Each country will imagine that it alone will escape. I shall not even need to destroy them one by one. Selfishness and lack of foresight will prevent each one fighting until it is too late...
...time to devise an insignia for it. But it was not conceived without planning. Last week, in the midst of organizing two armored divisions and other outfits to make up the First Armored Corps, Adna Chaffee could see and hear the good results of Army foresight. Part of it came in the kind of officers he was getting-the best the service has. More of it came from the sprawling plant of American Car & Foundry Co. at Berwick...