Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Park Avenue princess (Martha Vickers), fond of a songwriting pauper (Robert Hutton), naturally pretends to be a girl of the people. Just as naturally, he first mistakes her for a schizophrenic kleptomaniac, next mistakes her be-limousined father for a sugar daddy. As anyone could predict, Boy eventually becomes so successful that at picture's end he can stand the shock of learning who Girl really is. Otto Kruger supplies his touch of suavity, Jack Carson his considerable comic talent, and Janis Paige her banjo eyes and pretty curves-but none of these attractions can save the tired...
...United Kingdom, thus cut the dollar drain on Britain by about $20,000,000. On the same production basis, he might send enough top pictures to the U.S. to step his profits up to $18,000,000. This would be a blow to Hollywood. But Rankmen bumptiously predict that within five years they will be digging up $50,000,000 in Hollywood's acre, and cutting deeper into its take in Britain. This would certainly shake Hollywood, as well as make Rank's movies a big source of dollar exchange in Britain. It might encourage the Socialists...
Smith went on to prophesy an "Inevitable" war with Russia, praise John Rankin as "a great man, a fine citizen, and a good Christian," and predict the eventual triumph of "Anglo-Saxon civilization...
Comparing our present knowledge of the universe with human knowledge about the earth just before the discovery of America, Le Corbeillier points out that just as no one then could predict the number of undiscovered continents, so today the realm of undiscovered scientific knowledge seems infinite...
...were a ready-made pool of trained communications experts. Since the war, the number of hams in the U.S. has risen to nearly 80,000 operators, with 50,000 stations (two-thirds of the world total). The FCC is now granting over 1,000 new licenses a month. Some predict that within five years there will be 250,000 U.S. hams...