Word: outguessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brokers also trade on their own accounts, like every other speculator trying to outguess the market. If they succeeded with any regularity, they obviously would not have to sit around waiting for commissions...
Beyond Iwo, the Japanese cannot hope to outguess the attackers. Chichi Jima might eventually be taken as a platform for launching robot bombs against Tokyo (615 miles away). The only thing the Japs can be sure of is that their home islands, soon to be mapped in detail by U.S. photo-interpreters, are the eventual objective. They cannot be sure whether the assault troops will come direct, or by way of the Kurils, Ryukyus, China or Korea. They cannot be strong at every point of possible attack. They can either spread their forces thin or concentrate them at the likeliest...
Just as important as the offensive tactics in this system are the Harlow shifting defenses. As the other side lines up for its attack, in any formation, the Crimson quarterback calls any one of a number of defensive signals which are designed to outguess the offensive strategems of the invaders. Every bit as hard to master as the offensive signals, the defensive plays revolve around variations of holding, sliding, or charging tactics...
...move is more than an attempt to outguess Alcoa postwar strategy. The U.S. now has so much aluminum that WPB's C. E. Wilson recently said "it is running out of our ears". But the fact is that the U.S. will exhaust its high and medium-grade bauxite deposits (chiefly in Arkansas) in three years. It must then perfect a commercial process for utilizing low-grade bauxite (Alcoa claims to be trying out such a process now) or rely completely on bauxite imports, mainly from British and Dutch Guiana. This would mean that the U.S. might become a have...
...bill a dangerously blank check did not worry about Jesse Jones's cashing it. Congress had learned to trust him. Said Hamilton Fish: "I believe that this fund is in safe hands when placed at the disposal of Jesse Jones. ... I would bet on Jesse Jones to outguess and outbargain Hitler, Mussolini. ..." The House passed the bill (218-to-116), sent it on to conference, where no trouble is expected...