Word: foresights
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Boeing's emphasis on design had produced the two most famous heavy bombers in the world. But its future is as foggy as is that of all planemakers. Boeing will miss Phil Johnson's clear foresight...
...Flood and its symbolic repetition in the tears of men. He compared the eerie legends of Egyptian mythology with the religious teachings of the Hebrews. He pondered upon the comparative meaning of sin. Sin for the Egyptians was not conscious wrongdoing, but more akin to a want of foresight. "It meant folly, it meant clumsy dealing with God, it was something to jeer at. Whereas wisdom meant foresight and care for the future...
...genial, gangling Pennsylvania Dutchman whose foresight and tenacity once did much to save a whole industry. When radio was born, it swept U.S. music lovers off their feet, swept the mechanical phonograph into the dustbin. But Shumaker of Victor phonographs (who later became Victor's president) did not quit. He believed in the possibilities of electrified phonograph recording and reproduction. Driven by him, Victor scrapped its elaborate machinery, began making a new type of machine and record. Electrified, the industry went on to its greatest boom...
...scarcer; many housewives have difficulty in getting any pepper. The Government acted to force the pepper dealers to release their stocks. The dealers balked: the OPA ceiling price is 6½ a Ib., which they claimed would by no means repay them for the high costs of their foresight-insurance, interest, storage charges in warehouses. To make a small profit they need a ceiling price of at least 10? a Ib. (In London the ceiling price is about...
...pepper controversy posed a neat wartime question: Should the pepper dealers be penalized for their foresight by being forced to sell at inelastic OPA prices? Peppermen thought not, especially since U.S. housewives annually spend only about 35? on pepper. But still, the law is the law, in small things as in large. The War Food Administration pressed on to seize the pepper...