Word: graphing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekly Liberty is going to do by way of circulation in the next few years. Always forthright, they made this "estimate" in open comparison to Liberty's staid senior in the nickel-weekly field, The Saturday Evening Post. Always cheerful, their present to themselves was to show, on a graph, the consummation of their dearest ambition?Liberty becoming as large as the Post?at Christmastime in 1934. Thereafter, they guessed, they would have "the largest magazine circulation in the world...
...Telephone Company activities are generally divided into three distinct divisions. It may be recalled that in the original article on the Employment Graph, mention was made of the different divisions in a manufacturing business. The Telephone Company shows similar definite divisions, which are known as Plant, Commercial, and Traffic...
...considering business I want you to think just a moment of the field of human endeavor as a Graph with X and Y coordinates. The Y coordinates vertical represent different types of businesses with their various sub-divisions. The steel business, for example, is divided into smelting, mining, and refining, down to machine tool work, making structural shapes, and small metal parts. There are other businesses, smaller perhaps, with various types of products, but which are, nevertheless, separate as businesses...
...will imagine with me this Graph as covering the various occupations in which men labor, you can look along either line--vertical or horizontal--and find a given position at any given point. We shall find, for example, the sales manager for the manufacturing company which makes household furniture. We can find the accountant for the rubber factory...
First of all however, we must picture the graph and get it firmly fixed in our minds...