Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your-stations. On the bridge the young officers put on their earphones and checked with the fire-control room and plotters. Observers focused their binoculars. The T-shaped range finders swung in the sleepy calisthenics of limbering and checking. In the control tower the plotters laid out their instruments-parallel, slide, caliper...
...from the turnover component for trade centres, and the two are later combined giving the turnover in trade centres, and much more weight than that for financial centres. In the chart they are shown separately.) In early 1939 the trend of turnover in trade centres followed a course roughly parallel to that of industrial production as measured by the Federal Reserve Board. Trade centre turnover fell 9% from the first of the year to the end of April and then began gradually to rise. The Federal Reserve Board index fell 11.5% from its 104 high in December...
Trade centre turnover and the Federal Reserve Board production index again moved roughly parallel during the next period in which business began to take hope of autumn improvement. But in August the two parted company for the rest of the year, for in that month the production index practically ceased rising; then the sudden impact of war sent it zooming skyward to a November peak (preliminary estimate: 125, well above its recovery high, just equaling its all-time 1929 peak...
...book of short stories and poems, The World I Breathe, introducing to the generality of U. S. readers a young Welsh writer named Dylan Thomas whose druidical Welshness is probably without modern parallel. Greatly gifted, enormously mannered, his Merlinesque-magic dream stories were best when least diffuse, distinguished often by fine endings...
Rates: Governed by no general rules, shrouded in metaphysical complexity are U. S. freight rates. No rhyme or reason explains why iron products move from Chicago to Los Angeles more cheaply than from Denver, which is roughly half the distance. There are countless parallel cases. High rates on less-than-carload freight originally invited the trucks into the business, which they are handling at lower rates than the roads can meet...