Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, at the Beaufort (pronounced Bewfirt) Naval Hospital, where he is recovering from frostbite and shock, Pilot Rankin forecast, "I'll be back in the air in a month." But the Marine Corps had other ideas. The medics were not likely to certify him for duty that early, although his injuries seemed to be remarkably minor. Even if they did, Pilot Rankin's next duty, according to orders on the docket, will be a nine-month general-staff course at Quantico, where good officers get better and a pilot can still get enough flight time to keep...
...well it had stepped up efficiency under President Mark W. Cresap Jr., raised second-quarter earnings to a record $1.12 per share, through operating economies that overcame lower sales. For the first half, Westinghouse earned $1.92 per share, v. $1.70 last year. Cresap and Westinghouse Chairman Gwilym A. Price forecast increases in sales and new orders during the second half...
...overall exports were up to a one-month record of $519.9 million. Canada's index of industrial production is up 7% over last year, and industrial capital investment is now expected to reach $8,545,000,000 by year's end-2.7% higher than Ottawa forecast at the beginning of the year. The economy of Canada, along with that of the U.S. (see BUSINESS), has climbed out of the recession and is running off toward new records...
...report of April-June earnings of $2.70 a share, more than double last year's performance. American's nine-month earnings for fiscal 1959 ($8.36 a share) are running three times ahead of last year, came within only a few thousand dollars of the $50 million profit forecast for the whole year. In South Bend, Studebaker-Packard President Harold E. Churchill gave his fast-selling Lark full credit for the company's earnings of $1.87 a share for the half year, v. last year's loss...
Trap Drums & Businessmen. After studying at M.I.T. and the famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he offended a department of meteorology at New York University with the breezy claim that he could forecast more accurately than the local U.S. weatherman. At Minnesota he outraged College of Education colleagues in 1957 by blithely asserting that they had replaced the three Rs with "the three Ts-typing, tap dancing and tomfoolery." Once he thrust his martini glass at Minneapolis Symphony Conductor Antal Dorati and said: "Tony, we can build a machine that can compose music." Retorted Dorati: "Well, then you'd better...