Word: forecastings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the signature is authentic, promises that Dr. Hu Flung Huey, famed prognosticator, will be on hand in Cambridge during the fall to predict results of college gridiron tilt and other sporting events. The Sage of the Age, whose services the CRIMSON was fortunate enough to secure when Joe Forecast married, has worried his way back from the war in China, and is steering an erratic course towards Cambridge...
From its county agents who have talked with smalltown bankers, who have bounced along rural roads to look at farms and talk with farmers, the U. S. Crop Reporting Board of the Department of Agriculture gets the figures which enable it to make its monthly forecasts. Last week the Board met in Washington and pondered pages of cotton statis tics. The windows were carefully shaded as they have been ever since someone in the room crooked an instructive finger at a watching crony. When the estimate was finished it was that this year's cotton crop will...
...answer. To the first question they suggest that old Hopi medicine men are expert meteorologists after their fashion. They wait until rain is due, schedule the dance for that day. (The dance is seldom held the same day in successive years.) But the medicine men must be able to forecast rain at least nine days in advance. To the second question answers vary. Some say that the rattlesnake is a coward and will not strike anyone who handles it confidently-an explanation doubted by many snake experts. Some say that the Hopi are bitten, that a few die, but that...
Last month Manager Farley predicted Governor Roosevelt would beat President Hoover "by the greatest electoral majority ever given a Democratic nominee for President in a two-party fight." The Roosevelt headquarters forecast of the 531 Electoral College votes...
Because of a bearish Government forecast, farmers had expected their hogs to fetch bad prices all summer. But last week they were selling as high as $5.15 a hundredweight against $3.40 on June 1. Because farmers have needed money so badly that they have sold their hogs right along it was expected that no sudden rush of pigs to market would upset the hog-cart. In Iowa where 13 million hogs are born and fattened every year, the rise from June 1 to last week's average price made a difference of $40,000,000 figuring each...