Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, farm prices were 10% above January levels and the parity ratio had climbed to 85%. Wheat, corn, oats, rye and other commodity futures were rising. Department of Agriculture economists revised an earlier forecast, predicted that net farm income in 1956 will be higher than last year...
...year-old Williams, who thrashed Leonard with equal ease in the 1954 general election, got 418,432 votes in running unopposed for an unprecedented fifth term. Republican leaders found some comfort in the fact that in 75 of 144 key Detroit precincts-accurately used in the past to forecast election trends-Cobo ran well ahead of the 1954 G.O.P. ticket. To win in November, say the Republicans hopefully, Cobo needs only 40% of the Wayne County vote; Williams' weakness in predominantly Republican outstate Michigan will do the rest...
...Ninety-six cameras will be deployed in Chicago and San Francisco to bring the big show (at a cost of $17 million) to a forecast 120 million people-the biggest mass audience in history (twice the number that saw the 1952 convention, twelve times the 1948 show). ¶ New coaxial cables have been laid. Nearly 73,000 miles of TV channels will link 400 stations in 270 U.S. cities. ¶ An electronic blanket has been thrown over both convention cities. To harness all the new gadgetry, some 2,700 radio-TV people have already swept into the Midwest, hauling...
Lubell, a well known analyst of voting trends, was one of few experts to forecast the result of the 1952 election...
Back in 1954, two years after John Fox bought the ailing Boston Post, he predicted confidently: "One of the papers now in Boston will not be here on Christmas Eve." Last week, only 18 months behind schedule, Fox's forecast came true. The 125-year-old Post closed down...