Word: speculari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days on Wall Street, he used to say: "I am a speculator and make no apologies for it. The word comes from the Latin speculari-to observe. I observe." As mobilizer in World War I, he observed enough to prepare a report on mobilization (American Industry in the War) which might well serve as a text for all future wartime officials...