Word: forecastings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly a week Chicago had been shy 473 policemen, 224 firemen, 1,400 other employes. Alarmed citizens forecast dire results: uncollected garbage, unshoveled snow, unquenched fires, uncaught criminals. Underwriters spoke of higher insurance rates. To thicken the fiscal fog. however, City Treasurer Charles S. Peterson, self-styled "Custodian of the City Deficit," reported that there was no money in the treasury to meet a Jan. 20 payroll...
...about a return to "normal conditions" and "satisfactory" production. General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloane Jr. said that he saw eventual stabilization at 5,500,000 cars a year, was careful to stress the fact that his company has very diversified manufacturing interests. Standard Statistics in a five-year forecast of the industry last week predicted a future annual production of 5,200,000 cars, 500,000 less than last year, then said the future of the automobile industry "depends upon the disposition of the American automobile users, in the future as through the past, to continue...