Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PACIFIC AIR CARRIERS will get no more competition on current routes. Eisenhower turned down CAB recommendation that Pan American and Northwest Orient get parallel routes with each other and with foreign flag lines between U.S. and Japan. Ike feared new routes might "adversely affect" foreign relations, also found that forecast of only 17 revenue passengers a day in five years made further competition uneconomical...
...have the impression that the New Frontier is to be approached warily." The Reporter magazine called for the spur: "The men in the new Administration perforce have to be men of action." Rowland Evans Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune's Washington bureau filed a weather forecast on Kennedy's relations with Congress: "Partly cloudy, with variable winds...
...proved. In 1946, long before Keys suspected that this relationship existed, he and Dr. Henry Taylor persuaded 286 Minneapolis-St. Paul businessmen, then aged 45 to 54, to submit to painstaking, yearly physical examinations. The idea: to see if the onset of ailments in general could be accurately forecast by physiological measurements, i.e., weight, blood pressure, electrocardiogram, cholesterol count. So far, among other diseases, 27 of the businessmen have suffered heart attacks, 16 of them fatal. The common element in 18 of the cases was high (240-360) cholesterol levels. Moreover, it was the only significant common element. The electrocardiograph...
...Administration of the Commerce Department. The BDSA's reasons: "The unemployment situation and unsettled business conditions," plus the fact that dealer inventories at the close of 1960 will be bulging with some 1,000,000 unsold cars, about 500,000 more than a year ago. (The BDSA also forecast that compacts would rise to 35% to 40% of all U.S. cars made next year.) A year ago, the BDSA scored a bull's-eye in predicting the 6,700,000 units assembled by the industry...
Automen also sharply criticized the Government's failure to forecast sales as well as production. At week's end the Commerce Department did just that, issuing a second report forecasting sales of 6,500,000 cars for 1961, only slightly below this year's total. This cheered Detroit somewhat, though-allowing for inventory holdovers from 1960 production and imports-it altered the 1961 production estimates...