Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empty auditorium. Moving on to the University of Saskatchewan, young Diefenbaker joined the ranks of the campus apprentice politicians who ran the debating society, heatedly argued national issues in a mock Parliament. He devoured political biographies (a special hero: Lincoln), won better-than-average marks and a forecast in the college magazine The Sheaf that he would some day lead the opposition in the House of Commons in Ottawa...
Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of a car, will give 20 minutes' notice of tornado-producing conditions, says the inventor. Price...
...cities before local health officers did. A stocky, peppery father of four, he cried alarm in the '30s over the declining U.S. birth rate, persuaded birth-control proponents to change their pitch to planned parenthood, and was delighted when the post-World War II baby boom invalidated his forecast that the U.S. would become a nation of oldsters...
...abortion] is operating for the purpose of preserving the life of the mother."* The medical problem then is to decide whether letting the pregnancy take its course is "likely to make the woman a physical or mental wreck," and doctors find it far from easy to make an accurate forecast on this score. So most general practitioners call in a psychiatrist to share the responsibility...
...Instruments. In Pasadena, Calif., the Independent printed the weather forecast: "Clear today except for early fog, followed by smog, followed by evening...