Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then tried to change the name. For 18 months two local papers complained about the "Air Force grab." When two jet squadrons moved in with a roar-angry petitions were passed around. Relations were at "breaking point" when Colonel Shoup went to work. First, he decided to take and chart all phoned complaints...
...office, where gross is running about 5% ahead of a year ago, and in moviemakers' net profits, which may reach the highest level since 1948. As a result, movie stocks have gone up faster in the past year than the Dow-Jones industrial average (see chart...
...steel goes, says an old economic dictum, so goes the economy. Looking at the charts last week, economists brought up on the old business axiom might have been puzzled by what they saw. Steel production, long the prime index of U.S. economic health, was down to a bare 62% of capacity, some 8% lower than the first-half average and 30% below the 1953 July level. But while steel lagged, the economy as a whole was still racing along at a near-record level. In Washington, the Federal Reserve Board announced that its overall index of industrial production, while...
Over 350. Steel's own chart can be misleading. While the industry is operating at low levels in relation to its present capacity, the capacity has grown so much that actual output is 4.4% ahead of the 1947-49 average. Steelmen last week were looking for an early pickup as automakers start on their 1955 models (see below), railroads place their winter equipment orders and shipbuilding picks up under new government stimulants...
Sayre's fever chart was normal (he was suffering from two painful slipped disks). But his sales charts showed the results of some remarkable medicine. In the first half of 1954, while most other appliance-makers were barely holding even, Norge sales of washing machines, driers, refrigerators, stoves and other major "white goods" were 50% ahead of last year. In July they were 72% higher, in August 126%. With Norge in the middle of a $6,100,000 expansion program, Sayre expects sales to hit $75 million this year, $100 million...