Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very brave or very foolish man would attempt, as this is written, to prophesy the outcome of the 1956 election. But if I am correct in assuming that we are drawing towards the end of a political cycle, there are certain aspects of the approaching campaign which can be forecast with some confidence...
...first-quarter company reports bore out the bullish picture. Texas Co. President Augustus C. Long predicted better first-quarter earnings for Texaco than in '55; Consolidated Foods netted 29% more in the 36 weeks ending March 10 than in the like period a year before; Granite City Steel forecast a first-quarter record for steel shipments...
...exceptional" measure to protect Canada's struggling magazines. Actually, the Canadian magazines are doing better than ever; their circulation is up 51% in the past decade, their gross advertising revenue up 165%. In a brief to the government only two weeks ago, Canada's Periodical Press Association forecast: "Much larger circulations for Canadian periodicals; more Canadian publishers and new publications in all fields; bigger individual issues...
...many businessmen the biggest worry is the lack of any inventory forecast to help them keep the pipeline pumping out goods smoothly. At best the current statistics tell only where inventories have been, not where they are going, and thus what effect future buying will have on prices and sales. The Commerce Department and the Securities & Exchange Commission manage to get forecasts of business investment in new plants and equipment, while the Federal Reserve makes a regular sampling of consumer purchasing plans. Businessmen think that the Government should also devise a way of forecasting shifts in inventory policy. This would...
...when automation was just getting under way, Norbert Wiener, M.I.T. mathematics professor and pioneer in the development of automated machines, forecast that automation would reduce wage earners to "slave labor," and bring on an economic crash that would make "the Depression of the '30s seem a pleasant joke." Now Wiener has changed his mind: man is becoming automation's master, not its slave. He cheerfully concedes that automation is "increasing man's leisure, enriching his spiritual life...