Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observer was ready last week to predict that the commission would place its approval on the original partition scheme. In fact, the New York Times's Near Eastern correspondent, Joseph M. Levy, went on record with the statement that the turbulent conditions in Palestine had convinced the British that two far-reaching changes must be made in the partition plan: 1) The proposed Jewish State must be reduced from 2,500 square miles to some 400, confined to the Sharon Valley, whose population is about 95% Jewish. 2) The Arab State idea must be abandoned. "Highest British authorities here...
With Rightist arms in possession of three-fourths of all Spain, with Rightist Armies steadily advancing, most observers believed last week that Franco was headed for a final victory. In a war full of surprises, however, with the retreating Leftist soldiers contesting every square mile, few could predict that victory would be soon...
...PREDICT TIME WILL HAVE TO ADD TO STAFF TO HANDLE LETTER DELUGE THAT WILL RESULT FROM SLY EDITORS' NEW DEAL QUERY . . . [TIME, June 20]. EAGERLY I AWAIT THE COMING INEVITABLE THOUSAND DIFFERENT ATTEMPTED DEFINITIONS OF THE NEW DEAL...
...case Germany attacks. Czechoslovakians do not let visitors forget that they are blood cousins of the great Slav state of Russia. Eduard Benes naturally hopes for fulfillment of the pacts he drew up. But Yugoslavia and Rumania are gravitating closer to the Rome-Berlin axis, French Rightists openly predict that France will never come to the little nation's aid and even French Socialists and Radical Socialists are lukewarm to the pledge. The effectiveness of Russian assistance, weakened by purges in the Red Army and by internal conditions, is a large unknown. However, what Bismarck said about Bohemia still...
...fall, last year's surplus will total 300,000,000 bu., 30% above normal. This fact plus prospects of an average 1938 crop last week dropped futures prices on the Chicago Exchange to 57? a bu., 60? below last year, and prompted Administrator Howard Ross Tolley to predict that a Federal corn loan will be necessary this fall...