Word: predictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Texas, Professor A. E. Lockenvitz is recording the local earth fluctuations. With gravitimeters installed at various points, he hopes to be able to predict earthquakes by noting prior increases in earth tides...
...failure of the Treasury to prepare far enough ahead was important in multiplying the difficulties of maximum conversion to war; it also will, of course, lead to more inflation-than the Administration has thus far conceded. Nor is it difficult to predict who will get the rap for inflation as it develops. It will be hapless Henry Morgenthau Jr., sitting at the central Treasury controls. Yet all the ills of too much money cannot be attributed to Henry Morgenthau. No nation, has ever fought a major war without substantial inflation; and few nations have ever entered a war with...
...North Africa, P-38s destroyed 20 Italian troop transports, three other planes, eleven tanks in a couple of days. Against Germany's Messerschmitt 109-G and the Focke-Wulf 190, the P-38s had scored "about even," which prompted Air Forces Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold to predict: "If we can continue to destroy the Germans plane for plane, the result cannot long be in doubt because our production is at least double the German production...
...think straight because of Durwood alcohol I just drank," mumbled the Ashley pale Sage, "but things will probably get pretty Savage in the Stadium today. Whether the score is Harlow, I predict that Jawn will open the flood Gates, and De Angelis will be singing over the Bear's body tonight. Harvard 14, Brown...
...Though the U.S. birth rate is now booming, census officials predict a severe slump next year as the Army sends men overseas...