Word: charts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French colonies, the Paris Illustration hastened to print photographs of the jungle tragedy, taken on the scene by the Belgian Congo's official photographer. L'Illustration's cover showed the great white gash the plane had cut in the forest. Inside was a meticulous chart showing the contours of the plane's debris and the exact positions to which the crash hurled the bodies of Governor and Mme Renard and their five companions...
Main reliance of the Davis-Gibbs work is the recently recognized fact that the brain pulsates. When it does so it produces a faint electric current which can be detected and registered on a chart by means of electrodes applied to ear and skull...
...brain of a normal person, relaxed and with eyes closed, beats eight to 20 times a second and produces ten to 50 millionths of a volt on each beat. On a chart those beats show up as a fast succession of small waves...
When a normal person becomes unconscious from breathing too much nitrogen, faints from low blood pressure, or simply goes to sleep, the fast small waves on the chart are replaced by large slow waves, one to five a second...
...cannot chart politics. You cannot sit down and draw some crooked lines showing where the fluctuations of political sentiment are likely to lead. Then why watch politics exclusively? Instead let us stick to the one formula we all know- 'business as usual.' Never did this country need that slogan more than it does today. Box the compass of your own industry. Plan your future requirements. Cut your cloth according to your pattern, as the motor industry has done. . . . Don't dodge the duties of citizenship by blaming government interference for the lack of business initiative...