Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average, a point more than the previous record of 146% in February 1957. The FRB also revised upward its February industrial output figure from 144%, as previously announced, to 145%. Most encouraging was the fact that the extra boost in production has come from nondurable goods (see chart). Economists are hopeful "that durable goods will pick up faster, give the economy a new push...
...reason why charts can predict a rise, says he, is a simple one. "When the top officers know that a company has taken a turn for the better, they start buying the stock themselves, or tell their friends. This buying shows up on the chart. As a new pattern forms, it is not hard to project what the stock should...
Scarcely noticed in the long-swirling debate about how to achieve prosperity without inflation is the fact that since recession-shadowed early 1958 the U.S. economy has sensationally achieved just that (see chart). Last week Administration officials reported that the U.S.'s gross national product added up to an alltime record rate of $464 billion a year in the first quarter of 1959-a hefty $37 billion above the first quarter...
Black Line Payoff. At lift-off Dr. Debus looked through the window, studying the quality of the roaring flame. His experienced eye told him that ignition had been perfect. He strolled to the instrumentation room, where a moving pen was tracing a black ink line on a flowing chart. If the black line, which represented the rocket's trajectory, stayed sufficiently close to a blue line representing the planned course, all would be well. He watched for a minute or so. Then his saber-scarred face smiled gently. "It looks good," he said. Pioneer...
...line can be drawn on a chart to show all such positions, other lines to show places at unequal distances (half as far, 0.8 as far, etc.). The receiver simultaneously measures the distance from the third slave station, and this information generates other theoretical lines on the chart. If the airplane is on two lines of different sets, it must be at their point of intersection...