Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Posterity will be able to judge." The people of Italy answered their War Lord with their usual obedient roars of applause, and rushed to arms -where? By specifically exempting his immediate neutral neighbors, plus Turkey and Egypt, from his bellicose declarations, Mussolini forecast actions at sea and in the air rather than on land as Italy's chief contributions to the troubles of France and Great Britain. The combined air power he would encounter was probably much less than his own (2,900 firstline planes, 8,000 pilots), and not likely to be reinforced soon. At sea the odds...
Last week the market went vertical with a bang down. Its forecast changed from ''the same" to "civilization is going up the flue with The Netherlands and Belgium." To the average U. S. market fan, who starts and stops major swings, this translated itself into an imperative desire for cash. The scramble to liquidate stocks resulted in the sale of 17,000,000 shares last week, 11,500,000 more than War ll's 36 weeks' average. Prices dropped from 144.85 to 128.27 in the first two days...
...were dejected Britons bucked up by his gloomy forecast that the Nazis "are prepared and would not scruple to invade Holland, Belgium or both. Or it may be that their savage hordes will be hurled against their innocent neighbors in the southeast of Europe. They might well do more than one of these things in preparation for an attempt at large-scale attack on the western portion of this country...
...factors were added: the entire strength of the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine, upstate & down, was geared to roll up an overwhelming total for the President. The goal was 16-to-1, with Mr. Garner on the short end. Ten-to-one was taken for granted; mousy pollsters who timidly forecast 8-to-1 were fleered...
...views are so extreme that they are incompatible with political responsibility to an electorate that certainly holds quite different views, so far as I can see. To attribute any sympathy with them to one of our most responsible statesmen is unjust, particularly with the specific type of forecast that you allowed your reporter to make...