Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Lyon Collyer, president of B. F. Goodrich Co., celebrated the third anniversary of his first synthetic-tire sale with a significant look at the future for all kinds of rubber. He forecast a world rubber demand of at least 2,000,000 tons a year-almost twice the world's peak prewar consumption...
...Land. In North Africa, Allied troops waiting for their next campaign (see p. 30) heard the Prime Minister's forecast: "The African war is over. . . . Other operations . . . will follow in due course...
Today ATC has some 50,000 men to fly and service its planes, maintain its far-flung bases, forecast the weather, operate its communications system. In the words of their chief, "All of them are too young and too dumb to know what's impossible, so they do it." They are only the beginning of the force ATC will have by year's end. By then Hal George will, be able to say, with even more conviction than he does now, that ATC will have laid the pattern for something more than winning the war. It will also...
...balmy spring night, but the thermometer read well below freezing. The thermometer, in a professor's backyard garden at Raleigh, N.C., was measuring the temperature of the sky. Together with an ordinary thermometer and an anemometer (to measure wind velocity) it was also giving an accurate forecast of local weather for the night...
Four days later came statistical documentation of Herbert Hoover's tribute to the farmer. In Washington the Agriculture Department issued its annual spring planting forecast, based on reports from farmers all over the country. The figures were astonishing to the point of a 20th-century miracle: despite their troubles, despite bureaucrats, hell & high water, farmers will plant 279,000,000 acres-10,000,000 more than last year. They will plant 20% more peas and beans (good meat substitutes), 10% more soybeans, 21% more peanuts and flaxseed for oils, 14% more potatoes, 6% more corn to fatten their cattle...