Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John F. Barrett & Co.), bet his friends that there would not be an official temperature reading as low as zero in Chicago before March 1. He won $1,250. His system: "For years I have been using the wind direction on Ember days as a basis on which to forecast. The Ember days, you know, were named as movable dates for prayer and fasting by the Council of Placentia in 1095. When the December Ember days came, the wind was, over the period, predominantly from the East. As the eastern part of the continent was then having unseasonably warm weather...
Born. To William Henry Vanderbilt. president of the Rhode Island State Senate ; and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; twin daughters (7 Ib. 6 oz. and 5 Ib. 11 oz.) as forecast last month by X-ray (TIME, Feb. 16); in Manhattan's York House, socialite maternity hospital. Names: Elsie French and Edith Hyde...
However, the assistant dean went on to say, Harvard is interested rather in large discrepancies than in small ones. Last year an attempt was made to pick out men who should have been doing well, but for some reason were not. But Yale is attempting even to forecast the scholastic average of a freshman, his educational aptitudes, and his likelihood of success after graduation. Yet, to the assistant dean's way of thinking, a definite classification of a man's future possibilities helps neither him nor the college; it may be of scientific interest, but not of practical value...
Everyone knew that the year 1930 would prove a sorry one for U. S. civil aviation. Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, forecast it "the worst that commercial aeronautics has ever experienced." But he added gratefully, "the gold paint has at last been erased" (TIME, Aug. 18). Last week the first official proofs of his statement were given out by the Department of Commerce in a preliminary report of 1930 production. From the 1929 overproduction of 5,357 civil aircraft, the 1930 output fell to less than half-2,514. Military planes, practically all built to contract-order, upped...
Last year when the Depression was young and newsy, Cabinet members heartily took their cue from President Hoover in predicting, almost to the day, when it would end. The failure of these forecasts eventually reduced the White House to glum silence, muffled the Cabinet. Last week, however, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament uttered one more Administration prophecy. Prophet Lament was very cautious, very vague. Said he: "The apparent retardation in the rate of downward movement in several basic indexes of business, supports the belief that the elements of recession have now spent most of their force. . . . While...