Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acute lack of imagination. In the postwar world there were more immediate causes to get excited about-demobilization, the end of controls and shortages, reconversion, international political readjustments. Alongside them, the possibility of a U.S. failure to provide food for famine seemed a nebulous and negative thing, hard to forecast, harder to take seriously...
Ladybugs v. Greenbugs. Officially the crop was forecast at 830,636,000 bushels, better by 7,459,000 bushels than last year's bumper yield, higher by 5,000,000 bushels than the previous record crop of 1931. But Department of Agriculture men-not to speak of the always apprehensive farmers-had their fingers crossed. Drought, a heavy hailstorm, prolonged cold could seriously cut the crop. Mid-continent farmers who had escaped the blight of greenbugs that had ruined large acreages in Oklahoma and Texas now prayed for warm days that would bring out the brown-specked ladybugs...
...this and more could be forecast, but so far, the Manhattan Project is grimly guarding its piles, and burying their products underground...
...stormclouds thickened over the Middle East, the Congress took a sudden new interest in the weather reports. Expert W. Averell Harriman, just back from serving as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, was called in by two Congressional committees. His reported forecast: Russia was not prepared industrially or psychologically for another war-but would try to get all she could without...
...mean that a wage boost, alone, is enough to get a corresponding boost in price ceilings. But the policy did mean, he said, that companies can now get prompt price relief if 1) they have been squeezed into the red by rising wages and low ceilings or 2) a forecast of earnings indicates that profits will fall below the 1936-39 period...