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...which had been burning a hole in my pocket suddenly burst into flame and I found myself in the Coop. By the time my pants had stopped smouldering I discovered I owned a copy of S. J.'s "Dream Department," a bottle of ink-eradicator, and twelve reams of graph paper. The ink-eradicator and the graph paper I was able to fob off on some Woolworth jobber who was loitering around the Square, but my better judgment whispered to me that the tome "Dream Department" was a priceless item, not to be offered for blood or money...
...ship drawn to scale, which balances on a pair of knife edges. Weights, gauged to actual weight of cargo to be carried, are then placed over each hold on the diagram. The tray is then balanced by means of a sliding block, and the balance point is translated by graph directly into GM. Another pair of knife edges at right angles to the first can then be used to gauge the fore-&-aft trim of the ship in precisely the same fashion...
Response to the President's speeches has followed a saw-toothed graph. Two days after Pearl Harbor the President's Hooper rating skyrocketed to an alltime high of 79.0. Last fortnight, when he spoke over as great a hookup to the International Student Assembly, his Hooper fell...
Even with their old equipment the railroads will this year roll up to an impressive 50 billion passenger-miles, some 70% more than last year, an astonishing 35% greater than the previous peak in 1921 (see graph) -there will be 400,000,000 fewer passengers than in 1921 but the average passenger is now riding almost three times as far. Moreover, since Pearl Harbor 6,584,422 troops (more than three times as many as in the corresponding months of World War I) have taken train trips. If these wartime habits persist at all, long-distance de luxe coach travel...
...picnic is over on retail sales, as the 1942 lines (see graph) clearly show. The drop would be still sharper if the graph reflected unit instead of dollar volume, for dollar volume in April was inflated by prices 17% higher than in April...