Word: forecasted
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...India is still the land where 200 million sacred cows roam the fields and towns unmolested while families go without meat for weeks at a time. New Delhi's planners now forecast the 1966 population at 480 million-an increase of 65 million over the present total, or the equivalent of the population of Brazil. To help India feed this huge population during the next five years, the U.S. has agreed to lend $1.3 billion to pay for 17 million tons of U.S. surplus wheat and rice (TIME, May 16). But ultimately, India's economic stability will depend...
...million-car inventory on its hands, only 16% in the fast-selling compacts. Dealers may be worried about selling them, but Detroit is not. Some automakers plan to shut down earlier for model changes. Estimates of 1960 car sales range from General Motors' 6,250,000 forecast to George Romney's 7,000,000. All automakers agree that 1960 will be the best year for car sales since 1955's record 7,000,000 cars. Construction, down in the first half (see chart), is expected to rise with a pickup in home building...
...economy at last hit the magic half-trillion mark. The Administration's economic experts expect the G.N.P. to move up to $510 or $512 billion in the third quarter, to $520 billion in the fourth quarter. While this would be below the wild-blueyonder January estimates of some forecasters, the G.N.P. would average out for the year at close to the Government's earlier forecast of $510 billion...
Illinois (69): The traditional split is forecast, with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley shepherding 52 delegates into the Kennedy fold, most of the downstate strays going over to Symington. Daley, boss of Cook County, should hold his two-thirds of the delegation through the second ballot; if the bandwagon breaks down, Symington will find easy pickings...
...economists do not expect any great upsurge. They believe that the gross national product will average out at about $507 billion for the year (less than the $510 billion forecast by the Government...