Word: predict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worries some cops more than minor outbreaks of violence. "It's getting worse every day," says a Los Angeles police official, "and I only wish I knew what it's going to take to light the fuse." The Moslems themselves talk of 1970 as their DDay, expansively predict that before that time the big white nations will have eliminated each other with atomic warfare and Black Africa will stand unchallenged. Says Chicago Urban League's Negro Director Edwin C. Berry: "A guy like this Moslem leader makes a lot more sense than...
...minutes, v. ten to twelve hours for the open-hearth process. Kaiser Steel (which holds the U.S. rights to the patent for the process), Jones & Laughlin, McLouth Steel and Acme Steel have installed direct-oxygen furnaces. U.S. Steel and all other major companies are studying the process. Steel experts predict that by 1965 it will account for 35% of world steel capacity, 25% of U.S. steel capacity. Meantime, the industry is adopting the use of oxygen in its open-hearth furnaces, which account for more than 85% of U.S. steel capacity, and is boosting steel-production rates from...
Oceanographers mapped currents, furnished charts to air-rescue ships looking for downed airmen. Others analyzed the waves coming ashore at La Jolla and at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., were able to predict surf conditions for the landings on Sicily and Normandy. By studying the biology of barnacles, they produced a new, plastic antifouling paint that cut the Navy's fuel bill...
...their peak laying period has been prolonged. The new, automated egg operations have made egg raising so easy that virtually every section of the country now mass-produces eggs. The Southeastern states until five years ago were major egg importers; they are now major exporters, and many Southern eggmen predict that in a few years they will raise enough eggs for all the population east of the Rockies...
However, it is too early for '59 to predict its success in its chosen professions. The Class of '59 will be in a good position to evaluate such judgments at its twenty-fifth reunion when it returns to the Harvard of 1984. Until it can, the Class can rest content with the judgments of two of the University's top administrators. Dean Bender has said that the Class of '59 contains "an extraordinary number of extraordinary characters." And Dean Monro thought that '59 will prove itself "one heck of a good class." The Class of 1959 can reserve...