Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Chicago Association of Commerce on December 12, 1934, Chairman Charles Gates Dawes of City National Bank & Trust Co. predicted that a sustained upswing in the durable goods industries would begin the following June or July. Nothing happened in June, and as late as June 27 economists including Cleveland's Col. Leonard Porter Ayres saw no signs that General Dawes was right. But less than two weeks later (TIME, July 22, 1935) steel ingot production suddenly began the rise which has been virtually continuous ever since. By this modest but clean-cut feat Banker Dawes gained a reputation...
...number six player is rather difficult to predict, for there is quite a battle going on for it. In fact, nine inetmen rate about even, including Stuart Wyeth, Elwood Henneman, Andy Page, Jim Arensberg Oliver Bolton, Art Brown, Don Gordon, Dick Grandin, and Adrian Malone. Wyeth, Henneman, and Page have all played at this position in at least one match...
...spoke Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution to predict that droughts on earth will cease with 1939's storms on the sun. Said he: "A double solar cycle of 46 years appears to be particularly important in precipitation. We seem justified in expecting a severe recurrence of droughts following the year...
Frankie Frisch and Dizzy Dean were on hand to bemoan the three game losing streak of the Cards and at the same time to predict the pennant for the Cards. Frisch didn't think so much of the Bees, but Dizzy obliged by assigning them to second place...
...York, lunched off a Presidential tray. "The President did not mention Sit-Downs to me," said Chairman O'Connor when he left the White House. A few hours later his Committee astounded Washington by reporting out the Dies resolution for prompt House action. "I don't predict what action the House may take," said Speaker Bankhead, "but admittedly there is strong opposition to Sit-Down strikes on the part of the membership." That sentiment, if unchecked, promised the incredible spectacle of John L. Lewis following the path of bankers, stockbrokers and utilities magnates to a Congressional witness chair...