Word: forecastings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything or anybody, and my constitutional privilege to speak my mind about anything I am taxed to support. On the other hand, I have not tried to prove something or improve anybody; exploit somebody or expound anything; point a moral or point with pride; sound a warning or forecast the future." In short, Dorsey wanted to get his mind Clear About Things. In the course of reading this 958-page digression you may not always agree that he has fulfilled his promises; his continued excitement may even at times have the opposite effect on you; but you will certainly find...
...estimated the 1931 cotton crop at 15.684,000 bales as compared with 13,932,000 last year. Despite a 10 percent cut in acreage (TIME, July 20) excellent weather conditions had produced a crop yielding 85 Ib. per acre, 31 Ib. above average and the highest since 1914. This forecast rocked the exchanges of the land, sent cotton prices tumbling $7.50 a bale...
Last week the sleek, fast, red & black plane darted from Roosevelt Field up to Harbor Grace, N. F. Forecast was poor visibility but favorable winds. Unafraid of blind flying, Endres & Magyar took...
...Other noteworthy 1931 births: to onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico (son, premature); Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (daughter); William Henry Vanderbilt (twins, forecast by X-ray); Emperor Hirohito of Japan (daughter); Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (son, winning him a large wager...
Critics of the Republican tariff last week flaunted in the Administration's face this extravagant forecast made by Indiana's Senator James Eli Watson, Republican leader, in June 1930. "It is my prediction today, deliberately made on the floor of the Senate, that after the passage of this [Hawley-Smoot] bill . . . this nation will be on the upgrade, financially, economically and commercially within 30 days, and that within a year from this time we shall have regained the peak of prosperity we lost last October...