Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite this optimistic forecast, wheat futures dropped a scant 2? a bushel in the Chicago grain pits. Traders counted on Government exports of some 400,000,000 bushels to take care of any surplus...
...year history. Communist threats of disruptive violence did not materialize on the scale expected; only 35 people were killed in election disorders. Nor did the Communist boycott significantly diminish the total vote; 92% of South Korea's eight million registered voters cast ballots. But in one forecast, pre-election dopesters were proved right. Tenacious, septuagenarian Syngman Rhee was confirmed as Korea's No. 1 political leader and its probable new chief of state...
...peacetime atomic-energy laboratories. As construction got under way, Miamisburgers shivered with talk of bombs, death-dealing radiation, radioactive waste, etc. So the company's scientists staged a three-day atomic-energy show, explained patiently that Monsanto was not working on bombs but on peacetime uses. Their forecast: atomic energy would begin to revolutionize electrical power production within five to ten years...
With "Save the Peace" their rallying cry, men, women, and baby-carriages from the Harvard community will converge upon Memorial Hall triangle at noon today for a protest meeting aimed against "war hysteria" and Universal Military Training. Fair weather is forecast...
...occasion of a new supplement to The American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year. "I'm an old reporter and I can't stand by ... I'll probably end up by going," he forecast, "and blowing up and coming home on a shutter. Oh, well. It's a heroic death...