Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Huey joined the paper in the fall of 1929, after the former prognosticatory expert, Joe Forecast, had quit to get married. Huey's first season was an auspicious one, for he was correct on three out of four predictions. It was only in the past few years that the Sage began to loss his occult powers. Last season he missed on eight out of nine predictions...
...Signed the $36 billion omnibus appropriation bill, meanwhile rapping Congress for ordering him to do what Congress could not do, i.e., cut $550 million from the bill, and declaring, as forecast, that he would disregard Congress' instructions to lend $62.5 million of the appropriation to Franco's Spain...
...congressional hearings released last week, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson forecast some other pinches. He gave an estimate of how much copper, aluminum and steel would be diverted from civilian production to the rearmament program in the year ending next June...
Until Irving Langmuir began poking into the subject, meteorology was a passive science. Meteorologists observed and tried to forecast the weather, but when asked why they didn't do something about it, they simply looked reproachful. Modern meteorological engineering-the technique of doing something about it-was born four years ago in Langmuir's General Electric laboratory at Schenectady...
...Caesar. There was a sharp cartoon about Cicero, whose indecision in the crisis was lampooned in a caption, "Otium Cum Dignitate" (inaction with dignity). There had been strange doings at the Circus Maximus: two gladiators got tangled up with the umpires and decapitated one of them. The weather forecast: "Frigidus." Such was the state of the world last week as reported in Britain's only Latin newspaper, Acta Diurna (Daily Register...