Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several of my colleagues have asked me why I picked 80 percent as the music picture for the exodus from New England rather than 70 or 90 percent. The fact is I made no forecast concerning an exodus. I quoted a lady's view that she did not care if there were a large exodus. She said England would be as well off it her population had not grown since the days of Elizabeth. At that point, I suggested it the attitude is that it makes no difference whether the population is 12 of 3 million, then we need...
...Lord Woolton hopefully called last week's voting "a miniature general election." Jubilant Conservative politicians flatly predicted a Conservative victory at the national polls next year. Nevertheless, both sides realized that less than two-fifths of Britain's electorate had voted, that local contests do not necessarily forecast the country's attitude in a national election. Said a railway worker in Streatham: "Yer can't judge by local elections. They vote against you if they don't like yer face...
...temperature changes are directly geared to these solar variations. But he is sure that both follow the same cycle. This, says he, "is so strikingly obvious . . . that no one could doubt that it is both real and a major element in weather." To prove his point, he made a forecast at the beginning of 1948. His prediction named the 55 dates on which his solar cycles would begin, and stated that on those days the temperature in Washington would probably be below normal. In between those days, the temperature would rise by an average of y.i°F. Dr. Abbot...
...Cool Fourth. This year the Abbot forecast was taken out and dusted off. Dr. Loyal B. Aldrich, now head of the Observatory, reported: "On.48 occasions, warmer dates occurred between the dates specified, and . . . the mean excess found thus...
...news in food came out of the Agriculture Department. In its new crop forecast for 1949, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated-normal or bumper crops of almost everything. BAE estimated the winter wheat crop at a whopping 1,019,686,000 bu., well over last year's 990,098,000, and second only to 1947's record 1,068,048,000 bu. With good weather and a probable 325-million-bu. carryover from the 1948 crop, the U.S. would be up to its ears in wheat by summer. What with good crops and lower prices, the Bureau...