Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dropping the Pilot. When military soothsayers try to look into the future, they confess to considerable bewilderment. None can now predict how the new weapons will react upon one another and upon older weapons. Another unknown quantity is their cost, which is sure to be high. But many advantages are gained by dispensing with the human crewmen, who need space, visibility, heating and cooling, oxygen and pressurizing apparatus. And the crew of the modern bomber is an expensive item itself; it takes money and time to train its members...
...ancient pseudo-science of astrology, which attempts to predict the future by the motions of the planets, may have a bit of science in it, after all. This week Radio Corporation of America, no easy prey to superstition, announced in the RCA Review that it is successfully predicting radio reception by a study of planetary motions...
Mars & Mercury. Not all configurations coincide with storms. But the Riverhead records, begun in 1932, show that radio disturbances have occurred about ten times more frequently on the days of planetary configurations than on ordinary days. Nelson can also predict, in a general way, the periods that will probably be free from serious magnetic disturbances. They are most likely to occur when Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are spaced equally about the sun. In 1934, when the planets were spaced in that pattern, short-wave stations had less trouble than in any other year between 1930 and 1949. The next period...
...seen as many movies as anybody else, New York Times movie critic Crowther, will bring an objective opinion to the discussion. He will probably compare the present movie product to that of the past, and predict what sort of show Hollywood will come up with next...
...lived in the Near East for 4½ years, I have expressed great and deep concern over the lack of attention by our Government to the war potentialities of this hot spot. I heartily concur with TIME that here lies a "Background for War." And I should like to predict that this will be the first major Russian objective...