Word: charts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preview in Chicago, 27-year-old Inventor Leonarde Keeler tried out on two members of the audience his "Lie-Detector" which police have found handy for questioning recalcitrant suspects. The '"Lie-Detector" is a device which, by means of arm and chest bands, records on a paper chart changes in blood pressure and pulse action, presumably resulting from emotion. At last week's test, it worked so well when attached to two De Paul University students that Inventor Keeler said: "The results are . . . even more pronounced than in many cases in which suspects are being questioned in connection...
...give us the proper chart by which to steer our educational course" President Hoover two years ago appointed the National Advisory Committee on Education. Chief question to be mulled over was whether to revive (not, as many people think, create) the Federal Department of Education which existed briefly after Congressman James Abram Garfield (see col. 3) helped establish it in 1867. Under Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council on Education and President Henry Suzzallo of the Carnegie Foundation, 52 savants labored and brought forth last fortnight a bulky report...
...Four times so far, at six-month intervals, planes of Alaskan Airways have overtaken the drive with supplies for the lonely herders. Last week General Manager Arthur W. Johnson started home from a visit to the Manhattan offices of the parent company American Airways Inc.-to chart routes for the next flight, which they expect to make next month, with three tons of food & supplies...
...girls have set up a chart to which the boys must conform. Intelligence counts twenty points, the highest. The ability to understand the word "no" counts five percent, the lowest. Which all boils down to the fact that a young man can be ninety-five percent perfect and have a pretty good time for a dime...
Ingeniously the clothing trade, usually identified with Babbitry, is glorified by sophisticated treatment. An example is the story of the rise & fall of starched collars as reflected in the glorious reign and ignominious fate of the Arrow Collar Man -"a national idol who never lived." A chart showing the tumble of starched collar sales from 1919 (the advent of the soft shirt) is surrounded by colored reproductions of Artist Joseph Christian Leyen-decker's unbelievably handsome creation at critical stages of his career from the "merry Oldsmobiling" days of 1907 to the present. Captions tell the story...