Word: foresights
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This settlement, of course, was only a minor irritation compared to the real problems of finance during the Revolution which were inherited by Hancock's successor. Treasurer Storer's faith and foresight led him to buy Continental Loan Certificates during these years of incredible inflation, and the Harvard history books single him out as one of the University's greatest heroes. Whether or not he saved the school from "hopeless bankruptcy," Storer's feat of raising the College's personal estate from $55,000 in 1777 to $182,000 some 16 years later was truly remarkable...
Citation: "Distinguished woman of today's Britain and tomorrow's; schooled with wise foresight, as a career unfolded, in France, in Germany, and at Oxford . . . As a governor of Sadler's Wells and the Old Vic, earning the thanks of her countrymen in another distinctive field; wife of a diplomat, herself an envoy extraordinary...
...Fred Pabst, 84, retired as chairman of the board of Milwaukee's Pabst Brewing Co., leaving the company without a Pabst as an officer for the first time in 88 years. Remaining as president is Harris Perlstein, 61, a chemical engineer whose skill and foresight taught the industry that uniform beer could be brewed at widely separated points, and who made Pabst ("What'll You Have?") Blue Ribbon the leader in the move toward coast-to-coast distribution of beer...
This settlement, of course, was only a minor irritation compared to the real problems of finance during the Revolution which were inherited by Hancock's successor. Treasurer Storer's faith and foresight led him to buy Continental Loan Certificates during these years of incredible inflation, and the Harvard history books single him out as one of the University's greatest heroes. Whether or not he saved the school from "hopeless bankruptcy," Storer's feat of raising the College's personal estate from $55,000 in 1777 to $182,000 some 16 years later was truly remarkable...
Plow & Shafts. Rab survived, with a typical combination of foresight and luck. In 1941 Churchill offered him the choice of the Ministry of Information or the Board of Education, a wartime backwater. True to family tradition, Butler was deeply interested in education. But, though Hitler was then racing for Moscow, Butler also foresaw that the education job would give him a major hand in shaping Tory postwar policy. He chose education...