Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backer of Vice President Garner's anti-Third Term campaign, told Willkie boosters that Candidate Willkie would be elected, possibly by a landslide, maybe by a majority of 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 votes. Observers held two legitimate doubts: 1) Mr. Hurja's forecasting reputation was based on his 1932 and 1936 forecasts, when he sat at James A. Farley's right hand, with all the Democratic Party's professionals in the field as his reporters. Even then his 1936 forecast was very conservative, far below the final results (Hurja said 376 electoral votes...
...possibility of war was something else. For three weeks the mills have been laying in all the silk they could get. Last week they pushed the price (for future delivery) up 22? to $2.82½ a lb. U. S. Silk Importer Paolino Gerli called it "hysteria." He also forecast that by the end of November. U.S. silk stocks (now about two months' supply) would have doubled. But knitters and weavers, reflecting that a war with Japan would last longer than four months. noted that Du Pont was speeding its nylon plant expansion and intensified the buying rush. Some importers...
...among the Harz Mountains in 1880, Oswald Spengler loved peasants, lonely landscapes, flowers. He revered Goethe, adapted his philosophy of destiny-inspired evolution to mankind's history. Through Halle, Munich, Berlin he pursued a Ph.D. in mathematics and philosophy. In later years Spengler's contempt for Communism, forecast of Caesarism, belief in ruthless action over thought made him a Nazi favorite. But he despised Hitler's racial theories, self-conscious sense of history-making-and said so boldly until his death...
When President Roosevelt accepted his nomination by radio in the early morning of July 19, he made a slip of the tongue which may forecast history...
Seven years ago, in his The Shape of Things to Come, Britain's Herbert George Wells forecast a world war flaring out of Poland in 1940. Last week, arriving in Manhattan for a lecture tour, Prognosticator Wells guessed that Germany was at the "end of her tether," probably would lose the war. "Whether we will win," he added, "is another matter...