Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future profit on those sums, Gulf Oil and North American executives at last week's ceremony needed all the postwar vision they could muster. Their mile-long airstrips, built to handle planes of domestic transport size, were deep in snow. The day's chief speaker, CAA's Deputy Administrator Charles I. Stanton, was scheduled to fly to a dramatic, ribbon-cutting landing at the field. Grounded by the snowstorm, he arrived by train and auto hours late for the dedication...
Kekule's Vision...
...Kekule's vision of the benzene ring, which has been called "the most brilliant piece of prediction to be found in the whole range of organic chemistry," came to him in a dream about snakes. He wrote: "One of the snakes seized its own tail and the image whirled scornfully before my eyes. As though from a flash of lightning I awoke . . . occupied the rest of the night working out the consequences of the hypothesis...
...only guess at what was happening now in the northwest,. where the sky on past nights had been lit with pale flashes of gunfire. Over a radio improvised from scraps and toothpaste tubes they had caught fragmentary reports. They knew that MacArthur-who would "always seem to see the vision of the grim, gaunt, and ghostly men"-must have returned. Inside their bamboo and barbed-wire stockade, they thought with mixed hope and despair of their own chances of escape...
...Politician. It was a breathtaking vision, and the clear implication was that the huge lending powers of RFC could help to bring it all about...