Word: forecastings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was no ceremony as. under cloudless skies, the huge silver Pan American Clipper rose from the waters of San Francisco Bay, headed off on her second flight to Honolulu. The trip had been purposely delayed to await a storm forecast-a test of the Clipper's mettle. That night the great Sikorsky flew under cloudy skies over the rough Pacific until at dawn the light of Makapu Point reached out across Koneohe Bay. Then Oahu Bay appeared and First Officer Sullivan set her 19 tons down lightly in Pearl Harbor...
...when recovery was resumed it would be broader and brighter. The stock-market relapse in any event was overdue after a two-month climb and was accelerated by the plight of the French franc (see p. 19). The fall in commodities was aggravated by President Roosevelt's gloomy forecast that wheat might drop to 36? per bu., cotton to 5? per lb. unless the Constitution were amended (see p. 11). And general uncertainty was increased by the fact that the mourner's bench far outshouted the cheering section...
Last summer another Briton named Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas published a stockmarket forecast: The Coming American Boom. The breezy little pamphleteer sold tens of thousands of copies in the U. S. and gave his name to the short-lived "Angas rally" on the New York Stock Exchange. But the boom did not come. So last week Major Angas brought out The Boom Begins...
...Majesty's Prime Minister in the National Government. The twenty-five years of his reign, however, have been years in which personality has counted for less and less in politics; "the King's reign has been full of great events and of movements of which we cannot yet forecast the end." Perhaps some of his subjects--Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Mr. David Lloyd George--have influenced the course of events more than...
...wrath, if peoples again took arms one against the other to spill blood, brothers against brothers, so that destruction and ruin would be sown from the skies, on land and at sea. ... If anybody should commit this nefarious crime-and may the Almighty put far from us this sad forecast which we on our part believe will not come to pass-then we cannot help but appeal again to Almighty God with this prayer from saddened souls...