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Hooper last week announced the results of what he called "an attempt to do the impossible"-to estimate the number of adult listeners for each of President Roosevelt's fireside chats since 1936. To delegates at the N.A.B. convention in Cleveland, he distributed a red-white-&-black graph (a copy of one already presented to the President), which traced the listening history of Roosevelt broadcasts...
...priced opera for mass audiences. In its 30 seasons it has played 9,000 times to 19,000,000 people; and except for its first year, when it lost $700, it has made money. Though its performances some-times creak, and its singing is as uneven as a stockmarket graph, it has kept a wide public happy...
...January 1940 base) to the Department of Commerce's monthly estimate of total retail sales. Dollar volume for January, announced last week, was $4,212,000,000, up 16% above January 1941, but physical volume was down 1%. The top of the red area on the graph traces dollar volume of retail sales since Jan. 1, 1941; the bottom shows physical volume; the widening band of red records the progress of inflation as the two lines spread. The much narrower black band below traces the same curves a year before, to show how physical volume dropped below 1940, beginning...
...weapons were getting blunt from over work: global war to the death was just too big. German setbacks in Russia were al most too big for the master propagandist, Adolf Hitler, himself. His address to his people, on the ninth anniversary of his leadership, sounded like an old phono graph record grinding away under a groove-stuck needle: "Russian winter . . . many . . plutocratic . Russian warmongers . . . winter. . . ." innocent Ger Hitler almost said in so many words that it would do the German people no good to throw the Nazis out of power and conclude peace, for Churchill and Roosevelt were warmongering monsters...
...Fradd perfected the use of silhouettes to determine which students were in need of the exercises. The process, later modified by the "shadow graph", spread to all parts of the country. In 1938 the now famous "aluminum pins" were instituted to replace the visual method of conclusion by a mathematical method...