Word: foresights
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Aerial Parades. As Jungk enters Omaha's Offutt Air Force Base, headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, he duly notes beside the gate the Latin motto, Mors Ab Alto-"Death from on high." In place of the real story of SAC's courage and foresight, he sifts out another kind of conclusion. "The heavens," he writes, "have become a vast parade ground on which a general gives his orders with the bark of a sergeant-major...
...reach his present status of influence, Rab Butler has had the advantage of superior intelligence, foresight, and an inherited sense of service. He has few close friends in the House of Commons, or the Cabinet. "Once you break the ice with Rab, you find the ice water underneath," cracked one M.P. His self-confidence almost touches arrogance. "I'm supposed to know all the answers and I usually do," he once told a press conference. But he is widely respected, his intimate friends find him charming and witty, and his intellectual authority as the party's guiding brain...
...while the President's behavior in this area has been shockingly weak, it is not because he is essentially a weak man. Certainly the great courage and foresight which he displayed in Europe both during and after the war belch any such statement. His present weakness stems not from any lack of personal courage, but from an excess reliance on his White House advisors...
With this ceremony, the first of a new line of earthmovers, excavators and powered dump cars came off the assembly line in Japan. If the gods do look favorably on the enterprise, it will be because of the foresight of Julien R. Steelman, 47, president of Milwaukee's Koehring Co., which supplied know-how and a small amount of capital, and Japanese Industrialists Toshio Doko and Hiroyuki Hayashi, heads of Ishikawajima Heavy Industry, which furnished most of the capital and a plant. Together they formed the Ishikawajima-Koehring Co., to provide Japan with the tools for some...
...reason to fear peace." Some U.S. citizens, he said, have been talking as if the curtailing of war production would mean economic disaster. Said he: "There is no reason for a depression unless we fail ourselves to do the things we ought to do, and lack the courage and foresight to do them . . . We cannot preserve our way of life through another long, deep depression, and we must never permit it to occur...