Word: forecastings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though many a city church whose land rent is high and whose congregation is small may be scrapped, Anglicans are not alarmed about the fate of the average country church, despite the Daily Mail's gloomy forecast. Britain's picturesque churches, mellowed with age, will doubtless remain in use, even though in some cases their congregations have dwindled from...
Shocking as 1931 earnings fresh shocks last week forecast shocks to come. Last fortnight's news that great U. S. Steel had earned 5 cents per share in the first three months 1931, as against $3.44 last year, was keynote. Dividend actions have continued adverse. By April's end, 429 companies had passed their dividend, 251 ordered a reduction. Last year these were 58 and 219, respectively...
...surely present in both lines of trenches. Only those are surprised that Columbia now resumes its exchange professorship with the University of Berlin who had supposed that the old bond had long ago been reforged. President Lowell, surely, will find all Harvard alumni with him in his readiness to forecast the reconciliation of the future...
...victory was what newspaper straw polls last week indicated Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, Democratic nominee for Mayor of Chicago, would win over Republican Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson in next week's municipal election. But three factors put a discount on this political forecast: 1) the straw-polling journals (the Tribune and Daily News) were noisily campaigning for Nominee Cermak; 2) Thompson henchmen would not fool with ballots that did not count; 3) the city's "best people" now supporting Nominee Cermak might go golfing on Election...
Strictures. With much of Thomas' general criticism of the U. S. scene even tycoons may agree. Says Thomas: "The whole [economic] system is planless and extremely chaotic. . . . Employers have not even been able to forecast the market for their own products or prevent recurring depression. ... In sum total this planless, wasteful profit system gives us a new type of misery: poverty and unemployment in the midst of potential plenty...