Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the room came three men, the weather experts. They gave their report: what the weather was likely to do in the next few hours; probable conditions for sailors and airmen; a general forecast for the next 50 hours...
...Bagby put through a call to Jimmy Doolittle. Over the phone (equipped with a secrecy scrambling device) Tooey talked in low tones; the bombers were ready. A weather report came in. It was better than it had been for days, but still not too good. Bad icing conditions were forecast at 5,000 feet over the rendezvous area...
...long as Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's 20-odd divisions were tied up in Italy, the Nazis would have to divert supplies to them which might otherwise go to the invasion coast. Likewise, Kesselring must be prepared for amphibious landings in the north. (Berlin radio fran tically forecast that Allied troops were poised in Corsica and Sardinia for such a purpose.) In the Anzio sector, stiff Prussian Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen planned to meet another Fifth Army attack on the Germans' flank...
...first auction in 23 years of the once fabulously expensive chinchilla; 2) the first formal sale of U.S.-raised chinchilla skins. Mindful of the $20,000 to $100,000 that chinchilla coats once brought, some furriers glibly forecast a fantastic $250 a pelt...
That is the judgment of Dean Harry James Carman of Columbia College. Last week he forecast that, due to war's devastations, students of many lands will make the U.S. the postwar center of intellectual gravity. His colleague, Dean Robert De Blois Calkins, of Columbia's School of Business, predicted that foreigners will want to study in U.S. universities the business methods emphasized by the U.S. war-production record. More reserved was Columbia's Graduate Dean George Braxton Pegram, who studied at Cambridge and Berlin. He thinks Europe and Russia will still draw foreign students in special...