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...June it is possible to estimate roughly how high the curve will rise in any given year (see chart). Though the disease is commonly supposed to be promoted by hot weather, the Foundation's charts indicate that weather has little to do with it; the U.S. peak almost invariably comes in mid-September, regardless of the temperature (a notable exception: 1931, when the peak came at the end of August). The disease also seems to have a general cycle of four or five years-a fact which makes it possible to determine the general areas where polio is most...
Eight months ago Ontario's Premier George Alexander Drew suggested, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King quickly agreed to, a conference between the federal Government and the nine provinces. Purpose: to chart postwar taxation. For war purposes the Dominion Government had taken over provincial income and corporation taxes. Once peace returns, Canada's 77-year-old constitution requires the return of the provinces' taxing power...
Shortage of Weapons. In Washington, Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, boss of the Army Service Forces, called a hurried press conference. With chart and pointer, he pointed out the Army's urgent needs: trucks, small bombs, radar, heavy artillery ammunition. In all, he listed shortages in 320 vital categories. General Somervell was angry. He shouted: "If we are going to keep down the cost in American life, then the cost in labor and effort for everyone back here must continue to rise until it strikes its high point at midnight on the day before the enemy's final collapse...
Sometimes Partch succeeds with straight insanity: "Who the hell writes your stuff?" asks an eye doctor's patient as he sits before a wall chart inscribed ELPQZVCRNIDTWU...
...Even the chart-minded fence-sitters, who buy & sell according to the famed Dow market theory, finally had satisfactory statistical evidence of a bull market. Since last July, when the market stumbled after a long rise, Dow theorists have anxiously waited for the market to "prove itself," i.e., break through the July peak, or slump into a full grown bear market. Last week's breakthrough supplied the bullish proof...