Word: charts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each of 3,000 commodities (steel, cement, wheat, corn, cotton, etc. etc.) there will be a chart to show the amount of energy expended each year in production, the number of men employed, working hours, volume produced and flow of goods. By last week about 150 charts were completed and the Technocrats permitted themselves a first bit of publicity...
...night, or in a fog. the electric eye sweeps the horizon. When it encounters an iceberg it loses heat. This loss of heat is recorded, the position of the iceberg determined. Now Macneil is trying to make it record even the infra-red rays from the stars, to chart a ship's position at night...
...main stream of pedagogical migration is from South and West eastward to the older, better known universities where salaries are generally higher, chances of fame better. But any chart of professorial movements would also show a trend toward such midwestern institutions as the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, an even more pronounced trend toward California. Last week occurred an important shift in the West. Dr. John Donald Hicks, distinguished dean of the college of arts & sciences of the University of Nebraska, resigned to become professor of American history at Dr. Glenn Frank's University of Wisconsin. He will replace...
...father was English and Oxonian. Since he entered the oil business in 1896 (he went with Vacuum in 1903) he has shown a flair for salesmanship. Most famed and profitable of his ideas was that each type of machine should have a special type of lubricant. Vacuum's chart showing what kind should be used was the result of this, first shown to an admiring and tremendous sales convention in Hamburg. Looking more like a literary lion than a tycoon, President Arnott nevertheless is a tycoon every hour, seldom relaxes, has no hobbies. He was made president of Vacuum...
...grows, amateur traders hear a big rise is in prospect. Most pools do not play for large advances but for small profits on large blocks of stock. When the profit in sight seems satisfactory, the pool manager starts selling more than he buys, transactions increase by leaps & bounds. Canny chart readers sell too, for they readily spot the end of a pool movement by very heavy turnover with little change in price...