Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local newspaper wits are turning out their predictions for 1959. As every reader knows, these essays are uniformly hilarious, because there are so many riotous things one can say about things one knows nothing about. The CRIMSON, refusing to bow to this bourgeois trend, herewith publishes its serious forecast of things to come...
...annual features of TIME'S news coverage is the Year-End Review, in which the editors scan the U.S. economy for the year just past, and present a forecast for the year ahead. Over the last decade nothing has loomed larger in the financial news than Wall Street's bull, long a symbol of a rising stock market. But to TIME'S editors the bull does not mean Wall Street alone. He is also a symbol of the power of the U.S. economy. In the past ten years TIME'S readers have seen five bulls...
Gross national product will probably rise $10 billion in each of the first two quarters, then flatten out to end the year around $480 billion for a 6% increase. Inventories have already reached bottom, will slowly be rebuilt. Businessmen are once again increasing their outlays for plants. Forecast: up $1 billion to $31 billion. Says A.T. & T. President Kappel, who will add $2 billion to the $2.2 billion he laid out last year: "When the recession came along, we had to decide whether to trim capital expenditures as in past recessions. We felt sure that renewed growth was coming...
...depression, since a rising price level has been with mankind since the dawn of time, and is almost inevitable in a dynamic economy. The problem is to keep it within bounds-under a 1½% price rise per year. In 1958 prices did not rise even that much. The forecast is that they will remain stable...
...Retail sales reached a record $17.3 billion in November, and department stores across the nation reported sales up 7% for the first week of December. Forecast for Christmas sales: a new record, 3% to 4% over last year...