Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Cushner is unwilling to give any definite forecast about the strength of next year's Vassar football team. "If the deans are willing, we'll have a well-developed squad that should be able to hold off the strongest attacks," is her only prediction...
Furthermore, the Department of Agriculture forecast that, if "the present good weather holds, the 1947 wheat crop would be the biggest of all time-a whopping 1,212,000,000 bushels (v. 1,156,000,000 in 1946, the previous high). On the basis of farmers' planting plans, said the Government, corn and other grain crops would also be huge-depending on the weather. Despite this talk of bumper crops, grain prices steadied at week's end, even rose a bit. Traders hoped that, with most other nations short of grains, the U.S. would continue its heavy exporting...
Pollster George Gallup moistened a finger and forecast unfavorable weather for the G.O.P. If a presidential election were held now, he reported, 51% of the nation's voters would mark the Democratic ticket. It was the first Democratic majority he had noted since last...
...last week it was clearly too late in Indonesia for restoration of full Dutch imperial rule, too early for stable native government. Was it too late for cooperation between Dutch and Indonesians in a framework of expanding independence? From Batavia, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod cabled a gloomy forecast...
...going to get licked," was Coach Gordon Smith's pitty forecast of his Tech Swimmers' efforts tonight, meeting Hall Ulen's outfit in the Indoor Athletic Pool at 8 o'clock. But casting nothing resembling a towel in his opposition's direction, he added that he was damned if he'd tip his cards the night before by releasing any indication of a lineup...