Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dearth of facts which make it impossible to calculate Russia's intentions, it's action is restricted by the fear of betting its entire roll on the wrong horse. But under the Marshall Plan it could go ahead without the necessity of making a choice, based at best on guesswork. If Russia is really headed towards unlimited expansion, the United States will gain friends in western Europe, relieve the economic pressure which has forced several nations to a state of dependence on the whims of Moscow, and drive a sizable wedge into the Russian bloe. If Russia is motivated chiefly...
...take the guesswork out of estimating future traffic and the number and kinds of planes needed to carry it, he set up an economics planning division. Dismayed by the wasteful and expensive competition between lines for new planes, Patterson got four other lines together, talked them into agreeing on a single new design for all of them. The result: the famed DC-4. As Patterson says: Why be first? Why not even up the gamble on a new plane? In the same way, he got together with American Airlines' C. R. Smith early in the war and got Douglas...
...somber prediction that has unfortunately come true. Accused of writing their play from today's headlines, authors Leonard Mins and Edward Mabley unknowingly cut to the core of our occupational troubles in their 1944 gamble, a premonition that has given them a play and the world a headache. Their guesswork has turned out a shockingly accurate and courageous play that reaches the stage as the theatre's first belated attempt to bring the post-war problems close to an escapist audience...
...developments expected from the test will be a more accurate measuring of the size and composition of meteorite material, which will be gauged by the intensity and length of the light flashed in the man-made demonstration in December. These computations will take much of the guesswork out of meteorological calculations, Dr. Whipple conjectured...
Last week, the University of Chicago announced that Tugwell would teach political science and direct a new department of civic planning there, starting next July 1. His job, says his new boss, Dean Robert Redfield, will be to develop planning as "a science instead of guesswork . . . [to provide] special research instead of hunches, for instance, to predict population changes . . . [to] develop a coordinated view of the community as a whole...