Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada, a nation envied by the world for her brimming postwar budget surpluses, sprang two startling fiscal surprises last week. For the first time in nine years, red ink appeared on the national budget and a $160 million deficit was forecast for the year ahead. But instead of belt-tightening to make up the shortage, Canada launched a bold tax-reduction program, slashing personal and corporation income and excise rates to put more money in circulation and give the country's economy a judicious shot...
Typical April weather is predicted for today's sports. Skies will be sunny and temperatures around 50 degrees on Soldiers Field. Strong northerly winds about 20 mph are forecast for the Charles River. And heavy clouds will cover Mt. Washington. No snow or rain is expected. Varsity Baseball vs., Brandeis 3 p.m. Soldiers Field Lacrosse vs. Tufts 2 p.m. Medford Rugby vs. New York 2:30 p.m. N.Y.C. Sailing vs. M.I.T. 1 p.m. Charles River Skiing vs Dartmouth noon Mt. Wash. Tennis vs. M.I.T. 1:30 p.m. M.I.T. Freshmen Lacrosse vs. Deerfield 2 p.m. B-School Field Track vs. Andover...
...Forecast: A minimum of beach days this spring...
...staff of the Adelphi College Guidon, like other undergraduate newspaper idealists, thought that a little article on the President's wife on April Fools' edition might improve public relations on the campus. (The staff of the Oracle, the college year book, of which I was also a member had forecast whisperingly, but quite correctly, that the Guidon was headed for the biggest "news" of the year). The edition was really hot. The college authorities begged the post office not to accept or deliver that edition. One of the girls, a senior who was alleged to have given a finishing touch...
...Weather Bureau announced plans to start test runs on International Business Machines Corp.'s new 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine, a giant brain that eventually will be used by the bureau to turn out weather forecasts for 24 and 48 hours, draw its own weather maps for the entire U.S. By feeding the brain complicated formulas and information on temperature, wind velocity, humidity, etc. from hundreds of points around the U.S., the computer will be able to make a forecast in a few hours that would take an army of mathematicians days to figure...