Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This rare astronomical occurrence, combined with yesterday's total eclipse of the sun, had led astrologers (note: not astronomers) to predict doom. In India, particularly, a great number of people disrupted their normal business and gathered in, family groups to await the end. Many University students have also reportedly been taking a last fling...
Economists and businessmen are in considerable agreement in their predictions for 1962. In the language dear to the canny winegrowers of Burgundy, they foresee a good year but not a great one. Almost all hands predict that the gross national product will rise this year from $521 billion to somewhere around $560 billion, an increase of 7%. The industrial production index should climb from its recession low of 102 in February last year to better than 120 by year's end. And forecasters have the comforting conviction that consumer prices will probably inch upward by only 1%, meaning that...
...Hammarskjold wanted an active, vigorous UN executive who would settle explosive situations before international violence broke out--this concept is plainly offensive to Britain's Foreign Secretary. If the UN adopted the British theory of being simply conciliatory, simply a mediator, in the Congo, then it is fair to predict that the Cold War would become even more involved there...
...earner. The remainder of General Dynamics' twelve divisions are operating satisfactorily in the black, and some Wall Street analysts believe the company will show a respectable profit in 1962-provided additional write-offs on the jet program do not exceed the $5 to $10 million the directors now predict. But before General Dynamics can realize the promise it once seemed to show, someone will have to give it the aggressive, even arbitrary, leadership to convert it from an artificial colossus to a unified corporation...
Banned in 1845 after a series of suicides and scandals stemming from huge losses, "chemmy" is now the main attraction in 50 casinos that have sprouted in London during the past half year, and police predict twice that number within a few months. Trumpeted the Daily Mail: MONTE CARLO MAKE WAY FOR LONDON...