Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Hu Flung Huey ocC resigned on October 23 after predicting correctly but one of his last 12 tries, the CRIMSON has been seeking a forecaster who could predict games correctly. But the man who in 1936 predicted a landslide victory for Landon, successfully forecast a Harvard victory over Brown last week...
During a routinely optimistic election forecast last week, Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson observed that in Nevada the party had high hopes of dethroning lordly, white-haired old (74) Senator Pat McCarran. A reporter asked why, and Gabrielson explained: "It's his New Deal voting record...
...metals some metals men thought the worst of the increases about over. Said C. Donald Dallas, board chairman of Revere Copper and Brass Inc.: "There is actually enough metal to support the 1949 level of civilian output, the present high rate of stockpiling and military demands as now forecast." Hoarding and abnormal conditions, he said, have caused "the illusion of tremendous shortages of copper which in fact do not exist...
...Huey joined the paper in the fall of 1929, after the former prognosticatory expert, Joe Forecast, had quit to get married. Huey's first season was an auspicious one, for he was correct on three out of four predictions. It was only in the past few years that the Sage began to loss his occult powers. Last season he missed on eight out of nine predictions...
...Signed the $36 billion omnibus appropriation bill, meanwhile rapping Congress for ordering him to do what Congress could not do, i.e., cut $550 million from the bill, and declaring, as forecast, that he would disregard Congress' instructions to lend $62.5 million of the appropriation to Franco's Spain...