Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crop. Meanwhile agents of the U. S. Crop Reporting Board were scouting, sampling and interviewing throughout the wheat belt, getting the cold dope from the farms. Last week, behind locked and guarded doors in Washington, the Board added and weighed these reports, issued the official 1940 crop forecast to a waiting world...
...last week's end wheat car sidings in greater Kansas City were filling up at the rate of 1.500 cars a day, nearly double the rate of the same week last year. The Oklahoma crop, helped by rain, was 29,000,000 bushels bigger than the Government had forecast in April...
...much good news was, as usual, bad for prices. The forecast publication sent July wheat at Chicago under 73? a bushel, a new low since the delivery went on the Board last September. Optimists, who had helped push wheat to $1.13 in April under combined impetus of drought and war, had taken another look at the situation. The chronic U. S. wheat surplus looked even bigger and more unwanted than usual...
...would do what the old Constitution sought to prevent-invest supreme authority in a single dictator. It would probably abolish both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, substituting for them a single assembly of powerful yes-men. Dispatches from Vichy forecast the establishment of a "corporative" state in which, under Marshal Pétain as titular Chief of State, Vice Premier Laval, General Weygand and Minister of the Interior Marquet would form a power-wielding triumvirate. A regime similar to that of Generalissimo Franco, with whom 84-year-old Marshal Pétain was "tremendously impressed," was generally predicted. While...
...this inventory trouble forecast a temporary production recession that would have the healthy effect of bringing production and consumption more nearly in line, and provide a sounder base for later improvement...