Word: prediction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House committee chairman predict they may solder a new link between the Houses as they meet together for the first time in the Lowell Senior Common Room tonight...
...pipeline to Mandan, across the Missouri River from Bismarck, and Standard itself will build a 15,000-bbl-a-day refinery. Amerada will have to put up a multimillion-dollar plant to take natural gasoline out of the gas now being "flared" (i.e., burned) at the well. Enthusiastic businessmen predict that a prairie empire of chemicals and synthetics, rivaling the Gulf Coast's, will rise from these new sources of raw materials. So far, lack of transportation has held the flow of oil to a mere trickle, only 10,000 bbls. a day. But Jacobsen estimates that its productive...
Although the airline has not yet applied for U.S. and Canadian permission to fly the new route on regular schedules, its officials are confident of getting go-aheads. By next spring, they predict, Scandinavian's timetables will list two or three weekly flights over the top of the world...
...Within half a century," he predicted ". . . the whole face of the planet will have been unified politically through the concentration of irresistible military power in some single set of hands." Whether this unification will come through a world war or without it, he would not say. Nor was he ready to predict in whose hands the irresistible military power would rest. But in his mind's eye, Toynbee seemed to see the U.S. in nominal charge of the world, with Soviet Russia tacitly recognizing American dominance because it feared to challenge...
Shortly, Comrade Djuric's words were drowned in angry shouts. "Throw him out!" Quickly, Djuric was thrown out, and Comrade Tito himself took command of the situation. There would be, he promised, a thorough investigation of the charges-but he could already predict that an investigation would prove Comrade Djuric to be a Cominform agent. Unsurprisingly enough, that is just how it came out. Before adjourning, the congress formally accused Comrade Djuric of deviationism and declared him "unworthy to hold party functions...