Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caltech may have dropped meteorology, but I won't give up my memories of Long Range Forecasting Unit A, the Air Force weather unit that invaded the basement of Culbertson Hall for six months in 1943. Under Weatherman Dr. Irving P. Krick (then Major Krick), enlisted men plotted worldwide weather maps, and Krick and his forecasters endeavored to predict weather as far ahead as 30 days . . . One day, badgered (via Teletype) by Washington HQ for an overdue forecast, Krick could not get them to understand that the delay was caused by missing or unavailable data. Finally he blew...
...confident that some vaccine, already finished, could be released by the middle of this week, and that the flow would increase rapidly. But all sights had been lowered: the best he could hope for was completion of the foundation's priority program by Aug. 15. All manufacturers, he forecast, would be slowed down by the stricter safety standards. Against this background, congressional proposals for ever-bigger Government bounties to give vaccine free to poor children added up to wind and politics. Equally inappropriate, because premature, was the congressional love feast, exculpating all concerned in the vaccine difficulties...
...MEAT FORECAST has been pushed up another notch by the Agriculture Department, which now estimates that outtmt will hit a record 26,250,000.000 Ibs., about 3% more than last year and nearly 250 million Ibs. ahead of earlier predictions. As a result, beef prices will drop slightly, while pork, now 20% to 30% below last year's levels, will stay about the same...
Seven games in the National League have been postponed already this week, and the forecast of more heavy mists forebode empty dugouts again today. The New England PGA-Press golf tournament planned for last Monday was also rescheduled...
WINTER-WHEAT FORECAST has the Agriculture Department worried. Estimates are that this year's crop will be down 17% from last year's 790,700,000 bu. and 25% below the ten-year average, largely because of acreage cutbacks and a severe drought in the Texas-Nebraska wheat belt. Agriculture Secretary Benson is afraid that farmers will vote down controls this year, thus kick over high price supports in favor of higher acreage...