Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Predictions, 1942. Many a forecast for 1942 turned out poorly. Columnist Raymond Clapper thought the U.S. East Coast would be token-bombed, that the Nazis would loose poison gas on England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry...
...face of these unusual demands, the estimated U.S. production for the year ending July 1943 is only 2,100 million lb.-130 million lb. below the 1940-41 production. Hence, to equalize supplies, the Agriculture Department last week forecast direct consumer rationing of butter. Likely level: 17.5 lb. per person a year, compared to the 20.5 lb. the average citizen would like...
...able Correspondent Betty Kirk (Covering the Mexican Front) observed, Mexico had found nationalism under Avila Camacho and war. Mexico's wholehearted war effort was testified to last week by the STational Defense Ministry. Summing up the military achievement, the Ministry forecast that by the end of next year 1,600,000 Mexicans will have had military training, the bulk of them as a citizens' militia, with weekly practice sessions. Day by day thousands of Mexicans not yet eligible for induction are volunteering. Consignments of equipment are arriving from the U.S. The Mexicans have already found a name...
...Opponents. Critics of the Beveridge Report appeared an unimportant minority weighted against the bulk of national sentiment, but their potential strength forecast some stormy sessions in the scheduled post-Christmas debates in Parliament. They centered in the Tory Right, or Tory age as opposed to Tory youth (the latter, with the Liberals and Independents, were quick to back the plan) and the great insurance companies, which would lose much business by Sir William's proposals. But other potential opponents were small employers, who may find it hard to make the grade after paying their share of the contributions...
...like to forecast the future; today the question is: 'To be or not to be' in this most formidable struggle in human history...