Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forecast of things to come may prove the center of interest tomorrow night in the annual Knight of Columbus Meet at the Boston Garden, when both the varsty mile and two-mile relay teams will meet their Yale counterparts. Trial heats will begin...
...proposed constitutional amendment regarding a change in the legal voting age is presently before a statehouse committee for consideration. The bill's sponsor, state representative Alexander J. Cella '51, says, "It has a good chance of passage." This is a long range forecast, however, as the legal process required for such an amendment includes the passage of the bill by two successive legislatures and a state wide referendum...
...fated school-construction program, this time asked to have the $2 billion job done in four years instead of five. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. asked for the same civil-rights program that was pigeonholed in the Senate Judiciary Committee last summer. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton forecast no change in the Administration's plan for developing natural resources through public-private "partnership" cooperation. One surprise: Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield laid out a request for all-inclusive 5? first-class mail to be carried by air on long hauls, by train for short drops...
With a record 65 million employed, the gross national product rose 6% to an alltime high of $412 billion, better by $9 billion than most seers had forecast. Al most every American shared in the unparalleled prosperity. Unemployment was down to 2,463,000 in November, and workers were eagerly baited, cajoled and lured into jobs by ads and employment agencies from coast to coast. The shortage was not only of brawn, but also of brain. Some years ago Planemaker Boeing, for example, needed one engineer for every 15 employees. By this year the ratio was down to one engineer...
...uranium concentrate is equal to the energy value of 150 million tons of bituminous coal (about 32% of annual U.S. production). The fast growth of the industry has raised the question of whether there will be a use for all the uranium. AEC did not say, but it forecast a big market. It figures that U.S. nuclear electricity capacity by 1975 could require up to 15,000 tons of concentrate annually. The 180,000-kw. reactor to be built by Chicago's Commonwealth Edison group will require 75 tons of uranium metal just to start, and the Shippingport...