Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disguise estimated that German prisons now hold some 200,000, concentration camps another 100,000. Communists, once decimated by "our own carelessness," now organize in cells of three, are rarely caught. Suspected Communists are usually murdered in the parks by Nazis, infrequently tried and executed. The German Communists predict the next war will last less than a year, after which a civil revolt will smash the Army and the Nazi regime...
According to Andrews the present waxing of sunspots should come to an end in 1939. What this may mean he will not predict but cryptically leaves it to the imagination of the reader...
...Will Not Predict Prices...
America has been pouring relief funds into Porto Rico to the tune of a million a month. The cessation of this might not mean social disruption, but the most cautious Porto Ricans predict just that. Losing the island will not mean exposing the Canal Zone, for the naval base on the island of Culebra will be retained, as will various fuclling stations. In fact, it seems in every way advantageous to the United States to play the part of a kindly big brother. Porto Rico will be distinctly the loser if that country fails to see through this quasi-benevolent...
...Only serious kick last week came from New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., who feared that by lending 100% of the cost of such projects the U. S. would risk a lot more money than it would ever get back. Said this onetime Senator scathingly: "I predict that if an act of God strikes one of these lines, the Government will have to take it over, unless the Administrator requires the rates charged to be large enough to provide a cushion, in which case they will be prohibitive. If we are going into this...