Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration's plum tree since March 4. New legislation had created thousands more. Because most of these new emergency jobs were not put under civil service, the National Civil Service Reform League last week loudly warned against the rush for "spoils." Some people even began to forecast "corruption." Postmaster General Farley had unsuccessfully backed a bill to open every job paying more than $5,000 to political appointment...
Last week the Harvard Crimson headlined the news that curricular changes announced for Phillips Academy, Andover, forecast curricular changes for Harvard. Next autumn Andover will lighten its emphasis on modern and ancient languages, increase it on history, mathematics and science. The Crimson assumed that Andover's curriculum is based upon Harvard requirements. Ergo, Harvard would change too. Harvard officials quickly disabused the Crimson editors of their notion...
...Forecast. After a week of fretting, many lawyers believed the results might be as follows...
...sidedness of a partnership with Government was last week amply forecast. In adjoining columns of many a morning newssheet appeared parallel accounts 1) reporting the Administration's plans for raising prices and relaxing the anti-trust laws to prevent useless competition; 2) reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ickes, having opened ten sealed bids for 400,000 barrels of cement for Boulder Dam. found them all uniformly $1.29 a barrel, up 20? since two month? ago. Angered, Mr. Ickes demanded that the Federal Trade Commission investigate whether the companies had entered into illegal price-fixing agreements. Not inconsistent were...
...this country suffer from this disease, that $45,000,000 is spent for dental care a year, and that tooth diseases are steadily increasing. "The New Dentistry," published by the Harvard University Press is to be a popular and yet authoritative treatment of recent developments in dentistry and a forecast of the future...