Word: foresight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investment. Present to support Connor was Dr. E. C. Kendall, formerly at the Mayo Foundation, now at Princeton, one of three researchers who won Nobel Prizes for cortisone. Said Scientist Kendall: "Cortisone could still be just a laboratory curiosity if those who directed Merck & Co. had not had the foresight and courage to persist in trying to make it after everyone else had abandoned the attempt...
...that the Administration should be attacked in one of the few cases in which it shows any long-range foresight-the refusal to be stampeded into pouring useless billions into a worthless space race. If the American people want space superiority, they obviously can't get it for nothing; $10 billion a year will have to come from a reduction in defense weaponry or constructive welfare appropriations, or from a 20% increase in taxation...
...proposed U.N. action. But this time U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge came up with a surprise. Months ago he had ordered his staff to pore through the thousands of pages of Security Council proceedings in search of a model for a veto-proof resolution. Owing to Lodge's foresight, the U.S. was ready when the Laotian case unexpectedly came before the Council...
...sincere congratulations to Senator Thomas Dodd. It is gratifying to realize that there is one strong voice remaining with courage and foresight behind...
...system to detect Soviet atomic tests, he sidestepped them by taking his case to friends at the Pentagon. When the detection system, set up at Strauss's urging, picked up radiation from the Soviet Union's first atomic explosion in September 1949, Strauss, proven man of scientific foresight, set off another minority campaign: the fight to get an H-bomb program started against the combined opposition of his fellow commissioners and the scientists of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, chaired by prestigious Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...