Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grains. Despite low wheat prices, increased income for farmers was forecast, last week, by the Continental National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago. The report predicted: gross income $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 larger than in 1927; 220,000,000 bushels of wheat, 75,000,000 bushels of corn, available for export...
...will the influence of International Paper Co. stop with this sizeable unit. Also forecast, last week, was a further pool of power resources in New England. Only the approval of directors was lacking to consummate a combine between New England Power and Edison Electric Illuminating Co., a utility company serving Boston and 37 other cities and towns, reaching 1,265,000 individual consumers. Through this pool, the new Edison-New England Power combine ranks as one of the chief links of the intricately chained U.S. utilities "trusts," target of many a bitter political attack. And the controlling force...
...lunchers well knew, Senator Johnson had been fighting for years to have the Federal Government block up the Colorado River with the Boulder Dam (between Arizona and Nevada) and give Los Angeles a bigger & better water and power supply. They also knew that the Issue forecast by Senator Johnson is against what is commonly called the Power Trust, meaning the potent, propagandizing private interests who have sought to prevent the erection of a Federal project on the Colorado...
Storms are first forecast by those who fear them most. Storms in human affairs are often precipitated by sheer nervousness...
Therefore, masterfully, the President said: "Taking into consideration the legislation enacted during the last session of the Congress, we find that for 1929 our receipts will be about $3,707,000,000 and our estimated expenditures $3,801,000,000. These estimates might seem to forecast a deficit." Insupportable thought, to be quickly dismissed by the prestige of a Presidential first person: "I do not face the coming year with any thought that we will not balance the budget. This nation is committed irrevocably to balancing the budget...