Word: chart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the World War II bull market ended. However, there is little doubt that some stocks are too high in relation to earnings and dividends. Stock-bond yields i.e., the rate of dividends on a stock v. the interest rate on a bond, have been narrowing steadily (see chart), are now only 1% apart. Thus, in a high market with lower stock yields, investors have normally tended to shift away from stocks, buy bonds for added security, and thus start the market down. In the current market, some 100 of the 958 dividend-paying stocks on the Big Board...
President Eisenhower's medical chart continued to show an upward curve. For the first time, he sat up in a wheelchair and was pushed around the sun-drenched porch outside his room at Denver's Fitzsimons Hospital. His diet became more varied.* He started two paintings. He got back to a part-time, Monday-Wednesday-Friday work week. And once more a stream of officials and friends, dammed up for three weeks, began to pour into Denver and up to the President's bedside...
Representatives of 17 nations gathered in Singapore's blue-columned Victoria Hall last week to take stock of the Colombo Plan's first five years and to chart a course for the next...
...pigeon's brain, it went on billing and cooing and laying eggs just the same. Phrenology offered an easy clue to the enigma of human life. In the U.S., furthermore, phrenology took on a democratic tinge. Everyone had a head, and everyone with the aid of a little chart could understand what was going on in it. It was optimistic-the "good" organs, by exercise, would increase in size. Two men with heads as massive as Beethoven's took the whole thing over. They were Lorenzo N. ("salesman extraordinary") and Orson S. ("impresario and high priest") Fowler...
...Joseph Gall (1758-1828), who made the simple discovery that "character was the brain." From this it was a simple step to decide that if one knew what went on on the surface of the brain, one would know what went on underneath. Before long there was a little chart dividing the brain into 37 faculties, each doing its little bit to help a man on his path to perfection-or to hinder him (as in the Bump of Destructiveness). By midcentury, in the U.S. and Britain, phrenologists were as prevalent as dandruff...