Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candidate Tom Dewey, who kas always been a faithful reader of the pollster's barometer, was presented last week with a forecast of the political climate. Basing his conclusions on readings taken over the past four years, Pollster Elmo Roper predicted fair & warmer weather for the Republican ticket, with some danger of intermittent thundershowers...
...concerned, the test of how thoroughly TIME's convention staff did its job rests in its forecast of the balloting. Before the convention Domestic Bureau Chief David Hulburd's U.S. correspondents and stringers, including Washington Bureau Chief Jim Shepley's staff, had filed detailed information on each state's delegation, estimating its possible first and second ballot choices, describing the background of key delegates, etc. At the Convention this work was continued painstakingly to the point where, the day before the balloting, National Affairs Editor Otto Fuerbringer made some calculations and announced that Dewey ought...
...Oklahoma's rolling wheatlands this spring, all signs pointed to a lean year. Stalks that normally would have been thigh-high were hardly more than stubble; some fields were so thin that farmers plowed them under. Experts forecast that Oklahoma, which harvested an elevator-busting 104 million bushels in 1947, would bring home this year only 74 million bushels...
Last week, as the combines clanked northward, farmers from the Red River to beyond the Cimarron reported a miracle. Instead of the forecast five or six bushels an acre, the marginal fields were yielding 16 and up. In the good fields, one farm produced 52 bushels an acre, another 75. Fearing that no one would believe him, Harry Corbet of Alfalfa County got the State Board of Agriculture to certify that his four acres of bottom land had yielded a whopping 83 bushels an acre. With 80% of the crop cut, Oklahomans joyfully boosted their estimates to 88 million bushels...
...moment, farmers were too happy to care about a scientific explanation. As the miracle appeared in Kansas this week, many a farmer became convinced that the Department of Agriculture's recent forecast of 1,192,425,000 bushels (TIME, June 21), second only to last year's record 1,364,919,000 bushels, was sure to prove...