Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Largely Ritualistic." Roper was so sure of his prediction* that he was not even planning to report his running campaign forecast. Said he: "This is not a hare and tortoise race, and neither is it a race between two closely matched thoroughbreds ; it is a very ordinary horse race -a race in which one horse already has a commanding lead . . . My whole inclination is to predict the election of Thomas E. Dewey by a heavy margin and devote my time and efforts to other things...
With her doom plainly forecast in the first reel, Rita is allowed to flounce from bed to worse, leaving a litter of broken taboos that the Johnston office would not permit if she were a virtuous heroine who could live happily ever after. For love of this heartless wench, men die like flies, beginning with an unctuous colonel of dragoons (Arnold Moss), and ending with poor Don José (Glenn Ford). Since wickedness does not pay, Carmen at last ends up with a knife in her own alluring torso. As the gypsy cigarette girl, Rita has a chance to spit...
From his hiding place, Deputy Sammartino sent his party a dire forecast. "The fact that I am going underground is only the beginning. Tomorrow all of you will have to join...
Traders in corn, the prime feed for U.S. livestock, had expected a good crop-but nothing like the bumper yield forecast in the Department of Agriculture's first official estimate. Conditions as of July 1 indicated a 1948 corn harvest of 3,328,862,000 bushels, 39% over last year's dried-out crop and 2% more than 1946's record...
...Department also boosted the wheat harvest forecast 4% to 1,241,751,000 bushels, second biggest in history. Kansas City wheat men and railroaders scarcely needed to be told. One day last week 4,578 cars of wheat rolled in for unloading, 1,000 more than on the previous record...