Word: chart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going? Not into arms. For the next quarter, Fleischmann allocated only 1,900,000 tons, or less than 10% of the available supply, to direct defense output such as tanks, ships and guns. Eighty percent (16 million tons) will go to what the Government calls "defense-supporting programs" (see chart). Biggest takers: railroad equipment, petroleum industry, building materials...
...Electrons," he points out, "can supply the brains for the control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...
...Amethyst was untouched. Then she began to flood from a waterline shell hole suffered in the first day's attack. In the engineroom the depleted crew of eleven worked at temperatures up to 170 degrees, drank ten gallons of tea during the frantic run. In the chart-room, two men tried to pick out the channel with an echo sounder. One thing was sure: the Amethyst had to hit the narrow opening in the boom or "she would slice off her bottom." As she approached it, a flare went up, Communist guns opened fire and the river erupted...
Blue-jerseyed plane-pushers, shouting like stevedores above the clatter of their tractors, hurried to get the planes back to the Princeton's stern for the next launching. Mechanics, refueling and armament men in scarlet worked the planes over for the next strike. In his chart room abaft the flag bridge, handsome, white-haired Rear Admiral George R. Henderson, commander of Task Force 77, listened to his pilots' reports on the results of their strike. One pilot's instruments had been damaged by enemy ground fire; another thought his plane had been hit too. A young ensign...
From an economic point of view, the issue of free competition versus stabilization in football is as clear-cut (or as confused, if you will) as the nation wide price war. The play diagram has already been superseded by the break-even chart, the coach has given way to the business manager, and the trainer has been replaced by the accountant...