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Better Than Guessing. On this basis their accuracy is fairly good. Namias says that the five-day forecasts are "within one class" of being right about the temperature 80% of the time; the monthly forecasts are right 75% of the time. Rain and snow are much harder to predict than temperature is; the five-day forecasts are right about 40% to 50% of the time, and the monthly forecasts less than 40%. Even this low accuracy, however, is better than mere guessing based on "most likely" conditions for a given place and season...
Their decision was the latest evidence of a great change in U.S. merchandising, the shift to night selling. The change is based on two facts: 1) people have more time to shop after working hours, and 2) the five-day week has changed Saturday, the traditional peak shopping day, into a "stay-at-home" day. Speeding the trend is the fact that the defense program, drawing more & more wives into the labor force, makes it harder for women to shop during the day. The National Retail...
...Real Solid Gold." The whole five-day interlude was a quiet, relaxing time, devoted to family and old friends. Harry Truman walked across the icy street from the Truman home, coatless, but carrying a cane, to take a present to his spinster cousin, Miss Ethel Noland, drove out to make a call on Miss Ethel's 70-year-old sister, Miss Nellie, who is recovering from an operation at Independence Sanitarium. He sent his excuses to a big meeting of the Truman Democratic Club, held especially in his honor. But as always, on his vacation visits, he received...
...Mississippi). In 1919 went to Springfield, Mass. as a salesman for the Package Machinery Co. Became president eight years later. During the Depression, when many firms laid off men, Putnam's poured in money to develop new machinery, kept employment at a high level by going on a five-day week, pioneered profit-sharing, life-insurance and wage-bonus plans. He is comfortably wealthy...
From the sunbaked, palm-dotted town of Tuxtla Gutiérrez near the Guatemalan border, 97 carefully tuned automobiles set off last week on the first northward lap of the second Pan-American stock-car race, a five-day, 1,933-mile scramble sponsored by Mexico's National Automobile Association. Competing with Mexican speed demons for $68,000 in prizes-and the glory of beating some of the world's nerviest racers to Ciudad Juarez-were two-man teams from the U.S., Canada, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, France and Italy. Ahead of them were the hairpin curves, roller-coaster...