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...averages went above 106, which was more than 40 points above the Depression low. Failing to break its previous mark in a January rally, the bond market has been headed steadily downward ever since. After a wide-open break in Government issues last week there were few who dared predict that bond prices would better their old highs during the life of the present business cycle...
...forecasts 96.1% accurate, estimated that they saved him $35,000 in one year. Currently Dr. Krick's best customers are cinema producers, who some time ago discovered that good weather for outdoor "shooting" is one thing that even Hollywood cannot buy. Dr. Krick's uncanny ability to predict, a day or so in advance, the hour when rain will start or stop, when fog will roll in or lift, is reputed to bring him fat fees from cinema coffers...
...Civil War novel came out in the wake of that typhoon of bestsellers, Gone With the Wind. Whether None Shall Look Back could weather the vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum would lend it momentum, not even a publisher could predict. Sympathetic critics, just emerging from their cyclone cellars, wished Author Gordon luck but had to admit that None Shall Look Back, though it blew a neater, straighter course than its circling predecessor, could not be rated a first-class gale...
...Andover meet on February 6 Light body broke the 600-yard run records of both Andover and Harvard, running the distance in the exceptionally good time of 1 min., 17 3-5 sec. In the same afternoon Light body also won he 300. Sports writers predict a future for Freshman Light body more brilliant even than that of his famous father...
...researches that lie behind this performance enable Dr. Suits to predict the shape and behavior of an arc in any gas-and, conversely, to produce identical arcs in different gases by manipulating the pressure. Most of his hearers agreed that he had contributed handsomely to the science of arc welding and some predicted that his work would be discussed in future textbooks under the head of ''Suits's Law of Similitudes...