Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prices should rise unduly because of excessive buying or speculation," he said sternly, "I will not hesitate to recommend rationing and price controls." But, above all, what the U.S. had to do from now on would depend largely on what the Soviet Union did. "I shall not attempt to predict the course of events," said Harry Truman. "But I am sure that those who have it in their power to unleash or withhold acts of armed aggression must realize that new recourse to aggression in the world today might well strain to the breaking point the fabric of world peace...
Since not one questionnaire return recommended a general tightening of state control over the University it seems safe to predict that barring an enormous increase of the already unpleasant political tensions, the Harvard-State House relationship will remain the one tradition since 1865 of the successful and clever off-spring every so often called before the family council...
...plain Harry Truman at the whistle stops, but he was also a veteran machine politician who could appraise well-organized enthusiasm with a practiced eye. Chicago's Democratic machine-an oldfashioned, well-oiled affair in whose disciplined ranks a precinct captain is a failure unless he can predict his total within a couple of votes-was supposed to organize it down to the last cheer...
...only 600 to one. And as if a sure 40 percent weren't enough for the pool operators, they have instituted "half-numbers:" numbers which are bet more frequently than others, and on which for various reasons a significantly higher number of bets are placed than simple odds would predict. These numbers--there are close to 100 of them now--pay off only 300 to one. They are numbers such as 711, 777, 999, 713, etc., or a figure connected with some local favorite. (Before half-numbers were organized, 1776 once paid off on July 4 in a Chicago four...
...long as the current gas surplus exists, oilmen contended that gas prices, even in the field, would not rise much. Eventually, they probably would. Said Gordon W. Reed, chairman of small-sized Texas Gulf Producing Co.: "Where the price of gas will end, no one can predict right now, but it is definitely going to reach its economic level. Prices to producers in the Southwest could go up another 5/ or 6/ a thousand cubic feet [roughly 55%] without affecting consumers' prices- in the North...