Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge C-5A cargo aircraft capable of carrying 750 soldiers and large, fast cargo ships propelled by gas turbine engines for quicker deployment of heavy military equipment; 4) large-sca'e procurement of the controversial swept-wing F-lll (formerly TFX) fighterbombers. In purposely vague terms Johnson also forecast "remarkable new payloads for strategic missiles," including more effective devices to penetrate enemy defenses "and methods of reporting the arrival of our missiles on target...
...ages 14 through 17 were students. By 1940 the ratio had risen to 73%. Now enrollment is close to 95% of the high-school-age population, and more than half the graduates will enter college. With 700 two-year colleges already enrolling nearly a million students, experienced trend watchers forecast that in 1980 the ordinary U.S. student will not leave the classroom until...
...large corporation. But Moses allowed the fair staff to burgeon unrealistically, and costs skyrocketed. Moses tacitly admitted the situation last October by slashing the permanent payroll. He promises a "new and brighter show in 1965," says of the present crisis that "we have survived worse weather." Nonetheless, the forecast for the fair in 1965 remains cloudy...
...This jaded city is all astir over Lyndon Johnson's inaugural at noon today. Washington has never witnessed so expensive an inaugural--$2.1 million--nor one so cold. The huge crowd lining the streets to watch the parade will have to stand in 20-degree weather if the official forecast proves accurate...
...spending than ever is being done by people who have grown up knowing only the good times of the long postwar upswing. They are unscarred by the 1929 depression and little inclined to worry about another one. In the latest University of Michigan survey of consumers, a remarkable 46% forecast that the U.S. would never again have a recession of even the mild 1960 variety. Says Economist George Katona, the chief pollster: "When we ask why not, we are most often told that 'they' have learned how to avoid a recession...