Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recordings. Tape recorders are challenging phonographs for hi-fi music; they fly in jet planes and guided missiles to record test data; in the first earth satellite, a tape recorder will read dozens of instruments and transmit the data to earth. Using magnetic tape, giant computers compile payrolls and forecast sales. Entire libraries and millions of legal documents are being tape-recorded. This fall CBS and NBC will replace their kinescopes with tape recorders to rebroadcast TV programs so that they can be shown at the same hour across the U.S. with all the clarity of the live broadcast...
Newspapers and politicians admired the try, but almost to a man they gave Diefenbaker no chance. The Gallup poll forecast a Liberal walkaway. Instead, the Tories raised their hold on the House of Commons from 50 seats to 111 (including one member gained in a recent by-election). The Liberals were cut down from 167 to 105 members. Independents, plus the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (socialist) and the rightist Social Credit Party picked up 48, thus denying the Tories a majority...
...Concrete. Ever since the mid-1930s a few big, weather-wise companies have had prophets for profit on their staffs. As early as 1937, San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric hired Meteorologist Charles Pennypacker Smith to forecast temperatures in northern California, where a 1° drop can change gas demand by 40 million cu. ft. But the real boom in private weathermen came after World War II, when a flood of new meteorologists and new techniques from the armed forces became available to industry. Now, at fees ranging from $25 for a short-range forecast...
...well as a hail-halter (TIME, May 20), Krick now serves 200 companies, 260 radio stations and the Mexican Department of Agriculture. As a controversial proponent of really long-range predictions, Krick insists that daily weather can be foretold as far ahead as several years. His most famous forecast: a magic burst of sunshine for the inaugural committee just as President Eisenhower stepped onto the reviewing stand last January. Krick's system ("Do they think I use tea leaves?") is based on a theory that weather repeats itself in wavelike patterns, plus a newly rented...
...often accorded the junky's part. To the end, Rain is true to its unflinching credo. The odds seem to be against the emancipation of an addict with one relapse already on his record. Rain abates with only the faintest hope of sunshine, hints that the long-range forecast is more rain...