Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fashion Forecast. In London, Reader "J. B." wrote a letter to the Communist Daily Worker condemning workers for wearing trousers, "those symbols of the inequality of women," declared that under Communism, "not only evening dress but trousers too will disappear ... I am already designing a tasteful blanket suitable for both sexes. It [has] no shape...
...that in trying to avoid failures they have run up against an obstacle created by themselves. The observation methods of modern meteorology pull so many figures out of the air that no human brain or combination of brains can digest them all in time to make a fully considered forecast...
...mathematical equations. The latest meteorological figures from most of the U.S. and 1,000 miles out into the Atlantic will be fed into it.* Then the machine will start computing. In less than two hours, it will follow 40 million "instructions" and arrive at a 24-hr, forecast. The same job, using all available figures, would take a human weatherman 10,000 times as long...
...reductions apparently sent warming impulses throughout the entire Canadian economy. Abbott had forecast an $11 million surplus for the entire 1953-54 fiscal year. Actually, in the first six months, the surplus has already climbed to more than $200 million...
...same site next year. By then Wright's show, which has already toured Europe, will be on tour in the Orient. Among the architectural landmarks on exhibition:¶A full-scale mock-up of the kind of house Wright designed at the turn of the century, which precisely forecast the flat-roofed ranch style of U.S. architecture at midcentury. It featured, among other things, a sunken corner hearth, floor-to-ceiling windows, and storage walls. ¶ Pictures of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, which Wright built between 1916 and 1922. Flexibly constructed on a broad, floating base of stone...