Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neal McNaughton. engineering manager of the NARTB, forecast worldwide TV within ten years, explained: "The answer to global television lies in a submarine cable that will use a transistor repeater unit, smaller than a cigarette, to augment microwave relays between the continents of the world...
...Actually," said Dulles. "I think it is unwise to proceed on the assumption that we can forecast a general war within one or two years. I do not think that is predictable. Since it is not predictable, I do not believe that we are warranted in increasing so rapidly the military expenditure that it throws budgets really out of balance and creates an inflation which affects the value of the currency...
...agreement could still go into effect without Britain, and there was a good chance that it would. Wheat prices are again falling, after the biggest bread-grain crop in world history last year. The U.S. is also facing a glut at home. Last week the Agriculture Department upped its forecast for the winter wheat crop 17%. It looked as though 1953-5 crop, though no record, would be big enough to force Benson to impose acreage allotments and marketing quotas...
...businessmen, the long decline in commodity prices was more significant than the ups & downs of the stock market, since it is the prices of raw materials that, in the long run determine many retail prices. And even hough some retail prices are still rising the worldwide price trend, forecast by commodities is downward. Many of the commodities, like wool and rubber, which had the biggest rise right after the Korean war, have had the sharpest fall since. The Government's index of all commodities (2,000 separate items) is not far above its pre-Korea level, but some...
...forecast at press time last night, however, indicated no rain today...