Word: chartes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...keen sense, as sharp as any other designer's, of what U.S. women will finally choose to wear out of the hodge-podge of new styles. As far as the great mass-producing dress shops of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue are concerned, that makes Sophie a fashion chart. What she displays one week-at $255 a dress and -up-is often what the Seventh Avenue lofts will be busily making into a reasonable facsimile a year later...
...figures, had almost all his arithmetic down cold for his mid-year budget review. To the 35 newsmen who gathered in the White House's steamy little cinema theater one day last week, he confidently rattled off how he expected the 1948 fiscal pie to be cut (see chart). By next June 30, he estimated, there would be a whopping $4.7 billion surplus...
...Retreating Bear. Such dogged chart-watching and weaseling aroused the scorn of the Herald Tribune's C. Norman Stabler, loud exponent of the horse-sense school. He contended that the rally last May was actually the start of a new bull market. Stabler's thesis was that the market, having slumped in a period of rising production (see chart), had counted too heavily on a recession which has not yet developed. And alltime record earnings (see Earnings) made stocks bargains which people were sure to buy, thus bid up prices. (He ignored the fact that the rise began...
...Fever Chart...
Like Sartre's first novel, La Nausée (Nausea), and his plays (TIME, Dec. 9), The Age of Reason is an attempt to translate philosophy into fiction. The Age of Reason is the first volume of a trilogy which will chart the salvation of contemporary man. In this first installment, however, nobody is saved; the characters are condemned, instead, to simmer in their own existentialist juices-a form of Sartrian purgatory from which they all will presumably be able to free themselves in the other two books...