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Two cars in every garage and a swimming pool in every back yard--that's the prediction of Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, who says it may happen in 30 years. The economist's forecasts are printed in next month's Atlantic, in the feature story "How Big in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slichter Says Cold War Aids Economy; Sees Bright 1980 | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

ATOMIC AGE "I Expect to Sleep" From Rome, where he was on a lecture tour, one of the world's top nuclear physicists launched a prediction into the suspenseful calm with which the U.S. responded to the news of Russia's atomic explosion. Professor Enrico Fermi made the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: I Expect to Sleep | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

The Army boys warmed to the fight. They had brought along a sign which referred to an unfortunate prediction made last week by a Boston sportswriter to the effect that Army would suffer "a psychological letdown."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Celebrates Birthday, Brings Forth Sun, Cheers | 10/16/1949 | See Source »

Harvard had not played Columbia in New York since 1902 and had not played a major game in Gotham for well over a quarter of a century. There was no precedent to go by. Lunden was driven to a crystal ball for his prediction of Harvard fan attendance at an...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

"This . . . point of interest finds parallels in, for instance, weather prediction or even in cosmology, where the basic difficulty is rather a mechanical one--arising from the degree of appropriateness of the mathematical system applied and the onerousness of using it, granted data which are sufficient. Beyond this is the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calculating Machines Can Yield National Industrial Production Goals, Expert Says | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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