Word: prediction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consolidated Gas, was selling near its Bear Market low of $31.50. Chart-watchers had ruefully eyed prices slipping through the March lows, through the December lows, finally fetching up around the levels of last October. As these "resistance points" cracked under heavy selling last week, market pundits began to predict a reversal in the major upward swing which started not with New Deal but on July 8, 1932. Yet the steel industry last week was operating at 60% of capacity-highest level since September 1930. April cigaret-production set an all-time record. American Telephone & Telegraph reported a net gain...
...would like to predict a great growing rugby enthusiasm in this country over the next few years. The spectators will see a fast, human, sporting game without the unnecessary trappings...
...foregoing are appended to the financial reports of almost every big U. S. corporation. Contrary to popular belief, accounting is not an exact science. Charges, reserves, write-offs, appraisals, etc. are matters of opinion. Though profits or losses are calculated to the last digit, even the smartest auditor cannot predict the precise day when a lathe will cease to turn or a truck wear out. Best he can do is to estimate, with the management's help, the probable life of plant & property, set aside an approximate sum for depreciation. Having done this and all the other duties...
...there is one consolation. Geologists in the near future will be able to predict the quakes to the hour, and worrying citizens in Santa Barbara, California can be notified of coming disturbances...
...propaganda of the Nazis depended for its success not upon force but upon cleverness and subtlety, one might predict that it would continue to enjoy its present prosperous state. The English, for example, are the most successful propagandists in the world and yet few people are aware of the existence of the large and persistent flood of English propaganda. But the Germans are not very clever about it; most of the German people must, in fact, be damned fools to swallow the tripe that is shoved at them. When the moment of awakening comes they will simply refuse to swallow...