Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine in the medical room of Dillon Field house is indeed the overpowering object. But scattered there, one finds other objects perhaps as fascinating. Old tennis shoes, scales, rules, pamphlets, a red lantern hanging from a steam pipe, a Zimmer skeletal fracture chart, a sign--"office closed Saturdays and Sundays in summer...
...shake-out underlined the slide in commodity prices which has been going on since early 1951 (see chart). For businessmen, the long decline in commodity prices was more significant than the ups & downs of the stock market, since it is the prices of raw materials that, in the long run determine many retail prices. And even hough some retail prices are still rising the worldwide price trend, forecast by commodities is downward. Many of the commodities, like wool and rubber, which had the biggest rise right after the Korean war, have had the sharpest fall since. The Government...
When cotton, contaminated with natural radioactivity, is tested over a series of days, its activity diminishes according to a definite rule that depends on the "decay rate" of the elements involved. The curve of decay, plotted on a chart, normally consists of portions of two straight lines. On nine occasions in 1951 and early 1952, Holter & Glasscock collected samples that gave far from normal curves. Study showed that they were the decay curves of very complex mixtures of radioactive substances. The fission products remaining after an atomic explosion fit this description exactly...
...party leaders have also taken the most important ministries (second row of chart). Vishinsky has been bumped down by Molotov, who again becomes Foreign Minister. Marshal Vasilevsky was similarly demoted to make room for Marshal Bulganin. Other familiar names among the first deputy ministers (third row): Jacob Malik, former U.N. delegate, and Marshal Zhukov, conqueror of Berlin...
...Well, it all started last Saturday, son. If you remember, it was a pleasant spring day and I was standing by my chair when a high university official came in and asked for a haircut. After quickly checking my chart I noted that this particular man had not been in several months, so I naturally started off with the recent presidential decision involving Formosa...