Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scale of Values. In Toledo, police arrested (and later acquitted) Fortuneteller Addie D. Heller, 40, for charging $1 to predict the future, $5 to reveal lucky lottery numbers, $10 for surefire advice on how to get a husband...
Result: U.S. antique dealers are hard pressed. Sales at Manhattan's big Parke-Bernet Galleries are off $1,600,000 from last season's $5,727,759. Smaller dealers are even harder hit. Some predict that the next five years will see half of Manhattan's once flourishing antique shops close their doors...
...police power to upset any armistice, even if the ROK army should obey the U.N. instead of its President-which last week seemed entirely unlikely. Said a U.S. official in Seoul last week: "Rhee is a radical revolutionary. His actions prove that we just can't try to predict what he is going to do in terms of what is sensible. He has proved that he is capable of going to any end to get what he wants." Not all Koreans felt the same way. This week Chough Pyung Ok, leader of the only permitted opposition party, spoke...
...officer who probably was praised more highly than any other during the maneuvers was Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, 50-year-old Texan, a red-faced, trigger-brained officer who was made a brigadier general a day or two after the maneuvers had ended . . . Well-informed Army men predict that Eisenhower will be a major general within six months...
...announcement has been made as yet concerning the details of the inaugural, but it is safe to predict that it will be held within the first two weeks of October, as a matter of tradition. Whether the new President's inauguration will more closely mirror President Lowell's lavish three day celebration, or President Conant's relatively austere 15 minute ceremony is anyone's guess...