Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What happens to business depends a good deal on what businessmen think will happen to it. To find out what businessmen think, FORTUNE decided to publish a semi-annual "Executive Forecast," based on a poll of 28,200 business leaders...
...Wags forecast that, in coming weeks, CBS would be there when Hannibal crosses the Alps, Socrates dies, and Alexander the Great cuts the Gordian knot. Cracked one CBStaffer: "The series need end only with the crack of doom-recorded and transcribed by CBS, of course...
Weather Worries. Prices for corn futures broke all records on the 99-year-old Chicago Board of Trade. They reached $2.00¾ for July corn; the previous high was $1.99⅛, set in 1919. The jump was caused by a forecast of subnormal temperatures for the corn states, already suffering from a cold, wet spring that delayed planting. The Department of Agriculture, calmer than corn speculators, still expects a big corn crop, exceeding three billion bushels...
...desperadoes chase the stagecoaches. Every so often someone gets shot, plunges from saddle or coachman's seat and rolls over & over. The hero plugs four desperate characters, largely because they hadn't lived long enough to learn that in bright sunlight a man's shadow can forecast his presence, however stealthy...
Year of Crisis. U.S. military strategists know that the balance of military power is changing. They are sure they can predict almost to the year when it will have shifted to a critical degree, just as the President's civilian Advisory Commission on Universal Training forecast the situation three weeks...