Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of rain, the exercises will be held in New Lecture Hall. The forecast is for continuing cloudiness this morning but it is expected that rain will hold off until this afternoon...
...many industries must start reordering. As steel stocks slipped down to the 1954 level, steelmen report that 10% of all capacity-and 20% of all new orders -is on a rush basis, about as high as the industry can go. With production currently up a bit to 50%, steelmen forecast an upsurge of ten percentage points in the next eight weeks. Said Iron Age magazine: "This is brave talk. Yet some steelmen think it is a conservative estimate...
...over, they failed to cut back rapidly enough, were caught with overproduction in the face of markets that did not grow as fast as expected. In Europe, the Middle East's biggest oil market, oil consumption will climb only 4% or 5% this year instead of the forecast 6½%. At home, the U.S. recession will cut the increase in oil consumption to 2%-less than half of what oil companies expected for 1958. To pinch oilmen even more, natural gas, which accounts for more than 25% of the U.S. power supply, is growing increasingly popular as a fuel...
...make every effort to live up to the trust." Pointing with pride to Russia's peace-loving protestations, he viewed with alarm "the stubborn unwillingness of certain Western circles" to agree to a summit meeting at once. Khrushchev praised the "immense positive role" of his, industrial reorganization, forecast that his "truly revolutionary plans" to turn over all state-owned tractors to collective farms will give Russian farmers their place in the sun, and promised houses enough for everybody in ten to twelve years...
...estimates of capital expenditures for new plant and equipment. Last December SEC estimated that plant expansion, roaring along at a rate of $37.5 billion in 1957's final quarter, would taper off to $35.5 billion in first-quarter 1958 as many industries approached their expansion goals. Now it forecast a first-quarter rate down to $34 billion. Second-quarter estimate: down another $1.5 billion to $32.5 billion, with some pessimists even predicting a further drop to $30 billion during the rest...