Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated that cars in dealers' hands rose to 900,000, highest in three years, but carmakers did not seem worried so long as sales were still climbing. They plan no major cutback in production until the end of July. The good performance so far this year-some experts predict a 6,000,000-car year - has not changed Detroit's view about the small car. Last week Pontiac and Oldsmobile joined the parade with plans to put out their own compact cars for the fall...
...Makers predict that production of room units will rise from last year's 1,350,000 to about 1,700,000, and shipments of central air conditioners will go from last year's 224,000 to 280,000. They expect a boost from the record number of new houses going up this year (see Construction); 10% of them will be built with central air conditioning v. only 1.4% in 1952. Says the Federal Housing Administration: "Within a few years, any house that is not air-conditioned will probably be obsolescent...
...record this spring, should rate as a shaky favorite today. But Crimson coach Jack Barnaby says, "Everyone knows Yale is very good, but we're good too, and we will be ready and up for this match." Neither Barnaby nor Yale coach John Skillman was willing last night to predict the outcome. Skillman said, "It should be a very good, hard-fought match," and that is precisely what it is going...
Noting that every one of the seven airmen chosen for the first U.S. effort to put a human being into space is "a believing Protestant," the Jesuit weekly, America, had some fun with the Roman Catholic faithful who take such statistics hard. "We predict," says America, that...
...reason why charts can predict a rise, says he, is a simple one. "When the top officers know that a company has taken a turn for the better, they start buying the stock themselves, or tell their friends. This buying shows up on the chart. As a new pattern forms, it is not hard to project what the stock should...