Word: charting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee for Aeronautics, undertook to find the best way to deal with them. If a plane flies too slowly through the vertical gusts, it may lose flying speed and stall. If it flies too fast, the gusts may tear its wings off. This week the Air Force published a chart showing how fast various planes should fly through thunderstorms-if they must...
...Force does not think that its "Safe Speed Chart" will tempt many pilots to fly into thunderstorms unless they have...
...none too accurate, notably in the last two years. Back in 1937, the market fall was far worse than the drop in production; since 1942, the market has been much lower-in comparison with the gross national product-than it was even in the dark days of 1932 (see chart). The Dow-Jones industrials, now earning even more ($20 a share) than they did in 1929, are selling for only half as much...
...electric power, aviation, overseas communication and the Bank of England. It has also raised taxes and cut rations, and its popularity has taken a definite, although possibly not decisive, slump. Last week the Labor Party met at Scarborough in its annual conference to take stock of its accomplishments and chart its further aims. From Scarborough TIME Senior Editor Max Ways reported...
...time and effort on making films that television can afford. So far, except for a few shorts, the only films being specially made for television are commercials, which often add a new dimension of irritation to radio advertising. In a typical TV plug, the camera peers fixedly at a chart, showing the superior cushion effect of Firestone tires. Or it may ogle a picturesque blonde, pointing out the virtues of a refrigerator. Rarely has television hit on a first-class formula, like Lucky Strike's animated marching battalions of cigarettes...