Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans capped their apparent calm with a report similar in tone to their accurate (and equally unflurried) forecast of the Rzhev offensive. They said that at Voronezh, where the Russians last summer kept a foothold on the Don 300 miles northwest of Stalingrad, the Red Army was assembling forces for a third offensive southward toward Rostov...
...been forecast, the Beveridge Report proposed a comprehensive, compulsory system of social insurance for every man, woman and child in the British Isles, regardless of age, income or class, with premiums to be paid by the individual, his employer and the State (TIME, Dec. 7). But contrary to general pre-publication expectation there was not a revolutionary idea in the whole report. What Sir William proposed, in the words of Britain's steady, influential weekly The Economist, was "a plan for the security of incomes up to a minimum level . . . based upon existing schemes and existing methods...
...rolled into France, the U.S. Army had only 137 chaplains. How many it has now is a military secret, but at least 4,000 ministers are already in uniform. This is nearly twice the peak total of U.S. chaplains in World War I. The 7,500,000-man Army forecast for the end of 1943 will require over 6,000 chaplains. Last week a survey of Army chaplains suggested that the Army's need for chaplains is causing something of a ministerial manpower shortage...
These were some of the chief hot spots. There were many others, especially in Congressional races. One forecast predicted Republican victories in seven out of ten Congressional contests outside the Solid South. This would give Republicans control of the House. Sober Democratic estimates agreed on a Republican gain of 20 to 25 in the House; many Republicans felt that would be enough. They did not want control of the House now, with a Democratic President and Senate. But anything might happen...
...renegotiation law, remarked wryly: "We are in the peculiar position of doing the greatest business in our history and selling our goods without knowing the price we are getting. . . . Any quarterly or six-month financial report of a large corporation engaged in war production is nothing more than a forecast...