Word: chart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department itself pointed out, sales of all lines have risen so much that the ratio of inventory to sales is actually lower than a year ago. April's retail sales of $14.3 billion were up a bouncing 7% above a year ago. And a breakdown of inventories (see chart) shows that both retail and wholesale inventories are just about where they were last year. Most of the overall rise has taken place in manufacturing because of the necessity of storing materials for big defense orders. In a large measure, the inventory rise is a barometer of increasing defense production...
...demand, each flush of a water closet requiring eight gallons of water. Van Dorp suggested that his findings might be used as a swift and foolproof system (dubbed Teleflush by the irreverent) of rating TV programs. To no one's surprise, Van Dorp's system reveals (see chart) that Toledo's favorite is the same as the rest of the nation's: I Love Lucy...
...master" and "slave stations", which set up a wide-spreading pattern of intersecting waves (see diagram). The pilot pushes a few buttons that activate needles on three dials. Then, by means of other simple controls, he transfers the readings of the hands to a pointer that touches a special chart. Thereafter he need do nothing. The chart and pointer move automatically. By looking at the pointer, he can tell exactly where he is above the terrain represented by the chart. The pointer also traces a line telling where he has been...
...Western Europe, the Decca Navigator seems likely to become standard equipment. A set of stations in Britain has been operating successfully for five years, although until recently pilots had to figure out their positions without the aid of the pointer and moving chart. France will have its Decca stations in a month, and both Italy and Spain are dickering for their own installations...
Dogs & Dollars. Though he knew nothing about art, Klein soon had an idea that was even better. He hired a chart and poster man named Dan Robbins to turn out sentimental scenes of landscapes, flowers and dogs for an oil-painting kit containing a palette, paint, brushes, and a canvas printed with designs divided off into numbered sections. By just filling in the numbered areas with the correspondingly numbered paints, anyone could turn out a copy of the original picture...