Word: chart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procedure in employe relations the report was pretty smart, too. John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers are currently organizing Johns-Manville plants, and Mr. Brown may hope his workers may be soothed by a pie-chart of Johns-Manville income, showing that they get the biggest piece...
...regains confidence. In Gypsum's case, January and February sales were 25% under last year and the company is therefore unlikely to equal the $5,400,000 it made in 1937. This made Chairman Avery very bitter. Turning lecturer in true Rooseveltian style, he too presented a price chart, but he held it upside down. Snapped he: "It's the influence of this Government business...
...three improved lists were worked up by the New York Times, the Herald Tribune and Publishers' Weekly. Checking the leading booksellers in each of ten cities every week, the Times merely lists favorites of the moment in each part of the country. The Herald Tribune prints a weekly chart, compiled from reports of some 70 bookstores. Appearance and position of a book on this chart is determined by the number of bookstores reporting it as a leading seller; if three bookstores list a title, it appears on the Herald Tribune list. Thus, last fortnight, A. J. Cronin...
...background of a cut-1,000,075 dots in all. In the adjoining editorial the Evening Sun explained that each dot represented one person in the Federal Government's ''immense corps of jobholders. . . . The dots, unfortunately, had to be made very small. . . . Even so, the chart is too large for the taxpayer to paste in his hat. Let him hang it, instead, on his parlor wall, between 'The American's Creed' and the portrait of Mr. Roosevelt. ... If there were no jobholders at all every taxpayer's income would be increased twenty-seven...
...leaflet bears his picture, a physical description and a dentist's chart of his teeth. Anyone having information as to Burgess' whereabouts is told to communicate with Edward W. Fallon, Boston police official. To the left of the photograph is a facsimile of Burgess' handwriting, the end of a letter which he wrote to his mother, reading "Love to you and Father, (signed) Bill...