Word: charts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rock on which we struck was uncharted." said Captain Moeller. "and we were using a British Admiralty chart...
...search of news stories. Fortnight ago when a general steel strike threatened, 34-year-old Editor Powell led four of his newshawks to Gary, Ind., U. S. Steel's private stronghold in the Midwest. He wanted to observe the exact layout of the steel mills and to chart lines of communication for covering what looked like a major industrial...
...Board, the Department of Commerce, trade associations and a few private agencies provide the raw figures which Economics Statistics burnishes in the light of such factors as reliability, seasonal variations, money, politics. In an industry like steel, for which no inventory figures are available, the wobbles of thick, black chart lines tell the story. The supply index is based on the American Iron & Steel Institute's published statistics of ingot production. The demand index, which anticipates the trend of actual consumption up to three months, is calculated on figures from steel's customers-automobiles, railroads, building, oil. Gross...
...famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam. Like the Hoover Committee on Recent Social Trends, whose researches it found useful, the Commission began its survey in 1929. Financed by several hundred thousand Carnegie Corporation dollars and aided by scores of investigators, its announced purpose was to map the present and chart the future of social studies (history, political science, economics, sociology) in U. S. schools. That meant deciding the kind of society for which students should be prepared...
...General Motors from $42 to $31, Baltimore & Ohio R. R. from $34 to $21, Allied Chemical from $160 to $133. Weakened by a thrice-pared dividend and rate-reduction threats, the leading power & light stock, Consolidated Gas, was selling near its Bear Market low of $31.50. Chart-watchers had ruefully eyed prices slipping through the March lows, through the December lows, finally fetching up around the levels of last October. As these "resistance points" cracked under heavy selling last week, market pundits began to predict a reversal in the major upward swing which started not with New Deal...