Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week it looked as if best-selling Gordon Jenkins' formula would keep right on pleasing the U.S. public. In its "Record Possibilities" chart, popularity-wise Billboard picked Jenkins' latest release, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, a fast-paced Hebrew folk song with a Jenkins lyric, as the week's new record most likely to succeed in weeks to come...
Since war's end, the economic health of the world's currencies has been measured by the fever chart of unofficial gold prices. As people lost faith in their currencies and the financial condition of their countries, they scrambled to convert paper money into gold. The price of gold in India, China, Greece and other nations rose as high as $70 an ounce, v. the official rate...
Crossed Fingers. By last week there was a significant change in the fever chart: the price of gold was dropping all over the world. In the free market of Tangier where many of South Africa's premium sales were made the price was already down to $36.90 an ounce off more than $1.50 in a month and below the level where South Africa can make its premium sales pay. In France the price had tumbled to $38.25. In Milan and Hong Kong the story was the same. All over the world, said Manhattan's Franz Pick, publisher...
Such regularity in a chart usually means that an overall law is operating. Dr. Benioff studied more records, made more charts, and found evidence that the earth generates earthquake-producing strain at a constant rate. When the strain is not released in earthquakes, it accumulates at crustal weak points until something has to give. Then comes a series of earthquakes, followed by a period of quiet until more strain has accumulated...
...says Dr. Benioff, there was a great burst of earthquakes that lasted three years.* This period produced a tall jog on Dr. Benioff's chart. Since then the jogs have been smaller. Today the earth is having continual, mild earthquake activity. This means in Dr. Benioff's theory that the strain in the crust is being released as fast as it is generated. By the same reasoning, a period of no earthquake activity ought to be followed by a proportionately violent flare...