Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarines have definitely sunk an astounding total of 503 Jap ships (not counting 150 others in the "guesswork" category called "probably sunk or damaged"), an average of 4½ Jap ships for each of the 113 submarines that the U.S. had at the time of Pearl Harbor. As more U.S. submarines bore through to the Pacific, no Jap ship is safe from undersea attack, in harbor or at sea, alone or in convoy, near home or at the fringes of Japan's empire...
Causes. Most widely cited "reasons" for the sudden upsurge (all pure Wall Street guesswork...
What all this meant to J.W.T. in new billings was in the area of purest guesswork. Tide, advertising weekly, guessed at least $7,000,000, added that the bonanza put Thompson "neck & neck with Young & Rubicam for the No. 1 spot." Tide seemed overkind to Y. & R.: J.W.T. itself admits to $17,000,000 of new business during the past two years. Said Y. & R., in its best let's-not-knife-the-competition-in-public manner: "No comment." And the peripatetic Ford account, for which J.W.T. hastily divested itself of its small slice of Chrysler business, moved over...
Ready-Made Answer. Next he read from two New York Herald Tribune editorials. They discussed "the mixture of unauthenticated 'news,' rumor, guesswork and innuendo which has exploded a teapot tempest around . . . General Marshall." They labeled such speculative reporting obstructionism and "whispering gallery journalism...
Dawn, and a check-up of the rescued, brought bad news. The man killed aboard the PT had been assigned to go below and get one device of great importance; had he been able to dispose of it? It was not a matter for guesswork; capture of the equipment would give the enemy a priceless advantage in Pacific operations...