Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winter advances, the temptation becomes constantly stronger to predict the reaching of an ascertainable turning point in business expansion. Already signs, such as heavy pig iron and steel production, which usually accompany or only slightly precede the crest of business prosperity, are seen. There is a large school 'which adheres to the belief, consciously or not, that all "business cycles" are alike in duration as well as in general theory and phenomena. Hence some "financial services" are already bearish on the stock market and are becoming pessimistic over the business outlook also. No prophet can, of course, be entirely...
...tons in Canada. U. S. production was smaller in 1924 than in the year preceding by 14,000 tons, and 40,000 tons under the 1920 record. But Canadian output, last year, rose 87,000 tons over 1923, and was 54% over its 1920 production. Experts now predict that, in 1925 and subsequent years, Canada's newsprint paper output will surpass that...
...Collier plays the dual role of Monsieur Armand, reputable French collector of antiques, and Colonel Piggott, head of the English detective bureau. He portrays both characters admirably, and his French, of the best Harvard variety, was intelligible, which is saying a good deal. It is safe to predict that he will be given more leading roles in the future...
Arose, many moons ago, Mrs. Margaret Rowen, prophet of the reformed Seventh Day Adventist Church,* to predict the world's end, saying: "My son will return on February 6, 1925. Proclaim it-proclaim it from the skies...
...farmer's wildest hopes. Five grades of cash wheat here sold as high as $2.10 a bushel, while futures have advanced 80 cents from the low point of 1924, and 18 cents during the past two weeks. Arthur Cutten, prominent speculator, and Julius Barnes, famed grain expert, both predict $2.50 wheat before the new 1925 crop is raised-old grain traders declare they have never seen such a market...