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...York Cotton Exchange last week, the price of March futures soared to 25.87? a pound, highest in 21 years. But the price of cotton was like a fever chart; the higher it went, the sicker Old King Cotton got. His ills were those of gluttony...
...trade it now piously preaches. Actually, as far as cotton is concerned, the U.S. gave up free trade long ago. In the last five years, the price of cotton in the U.S. and the world price (based on prices in Sao Paulo, Brazil) have gone their separate ways (see chart...
Somewhere between the rise of the New Deal and World War II, the U.S. as a community fell apart. No chart registered the collapse more quickly and more clinically than U.S. literature. World War I had been preceded and followed by unprecedented bursts of U.S. writing. The American Renaissance, as it was bravely called, was studded with innovators like Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, Vachel Lindsay, Sinclair Lewis, and with solidly good writers like Willa Gather and Ellen Glasgow. Their books were often fiercely critical of U.S. mores and motives...
...strong prop of plantation life. There is Gervais' sister Cresside, a wild sprig who turns into a solid prop of the proprieties. There are, in fact, so many d'Alverys and other characters that some readers may wish that Novelist Keyes had supplied a dynastic chart and dramatis personae as meticulous as her map of Belle Heloise...
Thus, by comparing the time of readings, three stations can make sure they all heard the same bomb. Each also records the compass direction from which the sound came. In a matter of 40 minutes the readings can be compared, plotted on a chart. The spot where the three bearing lines intersect is the spot where the bomb was dropped. The Navy says it can plot the bomb explosion accurately within one mile at distances up to 2,000 miles from the shore stations...