Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy men, observers last week scrutinized with interest the Board's astonishingly prompt recommendation. Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, heavy and stooped new head of the Board, had testified before the Senate committee on ratification: "We do not get parity with Great Britain. . . . We should have maintained the ratio of vessels [with Japan]. ... I do not believe in any 6-in.-gun cruisers." Admiral Bristol is a seadog trained to do diplomatic tricks. Many a time has he maintained U. S. relations with foreign statesmen-as commander of the U. S. Navy base in Wartime England...
...much this outdated method of calculating horsepower for taxation purposes has cost the British nation in lost export trade it would be impossible even to estimate! Designers are still obliged to keep the bore-stroke ratio disproportionate for economic results. The American manufacturer has benefited enormously by our persistent folly and is able to produce his vehicles considerably cheaper by the adoption of a shorter stroke and larger bore...
Times Earnings. Forgotten is the market phrase of last year: "A good stock sells for 15 times its earnings-per-share.!' Last week the New York Evening Post endeavored to find out how much the decline in stocks has reduced the earnings-price ratio. Current prices of 405 industrial stocks average 11.8 times estimated 1930 earnings. Forty-three public utility issues average 17.2 times estimated 1930 earnings. Railroad stock prices, however, have not shrunk in proportion to the net. In this group, 37 stocks average 14.1 times net against 12.9 times a year ago. Notable exceptions still exist. General...
...good years, dwindles in less good years. Mr. Grace also put in a few words on the merger's economic justification, claimed Bethlehem's distribution facilities would take care of Youngstown's overproduction of pipe, that the two companies combined would have an "ideal" 65-35 ratio of light and heavy products, the ratio which U. S. Steel would well like...
Should that principle be universally applied, the effect would be equivalent to creating a fence 500 ft. high around every airport. And as approved aircraft have a minimum gliding ratio of 7-to-1, airmen have computed that 3,500 ft. would have to be added to each dimension of the present average airport for planes to clear the edges at the prescribed altitude...