Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forecast severe CAT, George studies weather data in search of above-and-below air layers that are being dragged violently past each other by the jet stream. He draws on a map the area where this vertical shearing is sufficiently intense. Then he scans the data a second time to see if any air masses on the same level are moving rapidly past each other. If this is the case, he marks another area on his map (see diagram). If the areas overlap, the overlap has the two necessary kinds of violent shear. It is therefore apt to be full...
...little cheer last week at the latest figures of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Diffusion Index. This is a compilation of eight indicators that include new orders for durable goods, average work week, building awards, Dow-Jones industrials, and new incorporations. The index has often forecast downturns in the past. If an equal number of the eight indicators are rising or falling, the index stands at 50; if more fall than rise, the index dips proportionately below 50. In June the index turned sharply downward, fell well below 50. The bureau's experts are still...
...local jobs of work to do, such as minding and mending the drains and administering other local pubic utilities. But the romance will have gone out of them . . . Ubiquitous but non-monopolistic religious associations will, I believe, be the standard type of ommunity in our Atomic Age. "If this forecast proves correct...
Heartening Prediction. For Alaska fishermen, who had been hard hit by steadily diminishing runs in recent years, it was almost too good to be true. Some had glumly believed that intensive Japanese deep-sea fishing had ruined the Alaskan salmon runs for good. Others had taken heart from the forecast of a good run by Dr. William F. Royce. director of the University of Washington's Fisheries Research Institute. Royce keeps tab on the number of young salmon moving down the rivers and into the sea and watches the results of test catches throughout the northeast Pacific. Historically, Bristol...
...airport, FAA Boss Elwood ("Pete") Quesada says: "We designed this airport for the requirements not only of this decade but for the next decade as well. Not looking far enough ahead is one of the errors we've been making through the history of commercial aviation. We have forecast the requirements and are not indulging in building for today. We are building for ten years, twenty years, fifty years from...