Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Rust brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more evolutionary than revolutionary. Last week the movement passed a milestone. Near Clarksdale, Miss., where John Rust began a tryout of an improved picker, a pioneering plantation harvested the first commercial cotton crop ever produced, from planting to baling, entirely by machine...
Traffic disturbances are forecast as the procession swings down Massachusetts Avenue as far as Holyoke Street, where it will be joined by more men emerging from their Naval Organization examination. From there the throng will sweep down Holyoke Street, then turn up Mount Auburn to Holyoke place, up to Lowell House, back to Holyoke Street, and then finally to the steps of the Athletic Building...
From Cleveland also was Nat LaRocca's finance. Nat adds his name to the growing list of prospective grooms, come commissioning day. It doesnt look as if Professor Hanson's shrewd forecast will be far wrong. He knows all the tricks, about any field. Apartment hunters, take note...
...holiday crowd jampacking the Vasco da Gama football stadium, President Vargas reviewed the contributions of Brazil to the Allied cause, promised that cooperation with the Allies would be even .closer "in the reconstruction period," which he forecast would be "equally difficult." Elections, he explained, would have to await the war's end and "a calm atmosphere...
...last week's official forecast was for the biggest wheat crop ever harvested, near-record yields of corn, oats, small grains, rice, peas, beans, vegetables, tobacco. Fruit crops were guesstimated from 10 to 15% greater than in 1943. For the third consecutive year the weather in the principal food-producing area for the United Nations had been miraculously favorable...