Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tons of extra inventory that they have piled up in recent weeks as a strike hedge. But inventories are not likely to be cut to the bone so long as the prospect of a wage reopener lies ahead, and most experts predict that steel production for the year will rise about 10%, to roughly 110 million tons...
Strip Cities. The immensity of the big cities of the U.S. holds a looming clue to their future. Experts predict that within 20 years most of the great cities will join together in massive megalopolitan complexes. Airline pilots first noted the trend, from the outstretching lights of the cities, a dozen years ago. Before long, the nation may be engulfed in great strip cities: a 600-mile giant stretching unbroken from Boston to Washington; another lining the Florida Coast, from Jacksonville to the Keys; a San Diego-San Francisco strip on the West Coast, and a Milwaukee-Chicago-Gary...
...Bilsen maintained that "intense" economic development under Belgian had "radicalized" the Congolese . "The Congo must move rapidly because it cannot move slowly. . . . The people demand change. If it cannot find to move ahead, one can predict revolution," he declared...
During the question and answer period that followed, Rhodes admitted that the Kennedy image (i.e., "Jackie, Bobbie, Ted, Caroline and ducks") is a "very difficult problem" for the Republicans. Although he acknowledged that the Elsenhower image had lasted eight full years, Rhodes refused to predict the same good fortune for the Kennedy Administration and suggested that the next four years might produce a "nice, very charming type of American failure...
...Anarchy is every where evident. Congressmen avoid the isolated new capital of Brasilia (built by free-spending Kubitschek to encourage development of Brazil's interior). Not a single major law has been passed since before Christmas-even though important land-and tax-reform bills are pending. Economists gloomily predict that inflation will raise the cost of living 60% this year...