Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Rabbit. The private decision to invest and the Treasury forecast of gross private investment are not made at the same time or in the same room. "The dog never sees the rabbit," explains one industrialist whose company is building a very large new plant. "What happens is this. [The Treasury] sends a directive to what is known as the 'appropriate ministry,' where an official keeps it three weeks, rewrites it so the main point is obscured, sends it to the wrong man in our company, who rephrases it in trade jargon so that it is perfectly harmless...
...Chicago, TV Forecast magazine announced a Television Board of Review to approve or disapprove both children's shows and any others they might be likely to watch before bedtime. The board will have no legal authority, but its impressive membership of top Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergy and laymen seemed to promise that it would get results...
...varsity baseball team may open its season at 4 p.m. today when it is scheduled to meet Boston University on Nickerson Field. The final decision as to whether the game will he played hinges on the afternoon weather, forecast as cold with possible showers...
Most everybody agreed that the dullest show of 1950 seemed to be the Academy Awards presentation itself at Hollywood's RKO Pantages Theater. A day before, Daily Variety had filled its front page with a completely accurate poll takers' forecast of the big awards. No one was surprised at the absence of foreign films or players among the major winners. Unlike last year, when Britain's Hamlet carried the day, none had been nominated. But the Academy's directors found it in their hearts to create a special award for Vittorio De Sica...
...Forecast same as Maine...