Word: chart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half of the year, it raised margin requirements (i.e., the minimum cash payment required on stock purchases) from 50% to 70%. While the Fed thought its action would act as a damper on speculation, changes in margins have usually had almost no effect on the market (see chart). After a brief dip last week, the market closed the week at 510.13, only 11 points under the alltime bull market top. Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston complained that the Fed's action was unnecessary, pointed out that despite the six months' rise, customer credit on non-Government...
...advantage, to the point that doctors no longer can remember what the particular properties are. The FTC conceded that the antibiotics industry has let consumers in on progress. From 1951 to 1956 output doubled, but average prices were cut so much that the industry's income decreased (see chart). The FTC also acknowledged that the business is cruelly competitive. Unless a maker gets in fast, makes a profit with a new product and keeps on finding newer products, he soon loses...
...Murphy's preliminary flight chart...
Through such zany mockery of the solemn, the pretentious and the inane, the bimonthly Mad is compiling a growth chart that is no laughing matter. For its sixth-anniversary number out last week, Mad printed 1,300,000 copies, a 100% increase in a year. What is more, Mad is solidly in the black though it carries not a line of advertising, has spent only $350 on outright promotion. In fact, the essence of Mad's success is its nimble spoofing of promotions of all kinds. In its parodies of advertisements and travel stickers, vending machines and lovelorn columnists...
...lead. Said Big Steel's Chairman Roger M. Blough: "Our immediate conclusion is not to attempt to change our prices until the situation is clarified." When that might be, added Blough: "We cannot forecast." But for years, steel prices have climbed, along with boosts in minimum wages (see chart), cost-of-living allowances and other costs...