Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slichter bases his forecast partly on the belief that government defense spending will not reach its peak until the 1954 Congressional elections...
Just before 6 o'clock on the evening of Sept. 1, the Air Force's weather forecast was justified; across Carswell Air Force Base at Fort Worth, Texas rolled a thunderstorm. Comfortably indoors, or away on holiday pursuits, the command did not worry about the reason for the base's existence: its mighty 6-36 intercontinental bombers were snugly tied down on the flying line, and in windblown Texas they had stayed safe in gales of 60 m.p.h. Then, without warning, the big storm...
City Ways. In Richmond, Ind., a twelve-year-old visitor from the country carefully explained why he had turned in a false fire alarm: some city boys had told him that if he pulled the lever in the red box a bird would pop out and forecast the weather...
...smoke. As brokers jumped from their penthouses and amateur stock gamblers went to the wall, the U.S. began the calamitous descent into the Great Depression, the nation's most all-embracing crisis since the Civil War. For the world-famed economist, engineer and humanitarian who had confidently forecast the abolition of poverty before assuming the presidency seven months earlier, it was a blow scarcely to be endured...
...expect justice," said Emile Zola in 1897, at the height of his fame. "I know that I must disappear." So far as his literary popularity was concerned, the forecast was sound. After his death in 1902, his readers began dropping away. Between 1932 and 1952 not a single book about Zola was published in English. In the U.S., thanks to Actor Paul Muni's performance in a movie version of his life, Zola is stereotyped as an angry old Frenchman in a plug...