Whenever bad economic news emerged, many economists pushed their rosy predictions a few weeks into the future.
Not everyone, of course, agreed with the rosy predictions.
Despite continuing rosy predictions, this kept up throughout the 30's and into the mid-40's.
Yet those rosy predictions have been greeted with skepticism.
Well, the rosy predictions for domestic advertising spending just keep on coming from a leading industry forecaster.
But years of rosy predictions have inured many analysts to disappointment.
There is no shortage of rosy predictions on the race's financial success.
That has not stopped race organizers from making rosy predictions of big profits just around the bend.
The space elevator had been completed five years ago, and all of the rosy predictions were now proven rubbish.
Yet those rosy predictions from 1952 may have only been premature.