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...attached to an apparatus resembling a radio set, inside which were two balanced electrical circuits, with a two stage amplifier on the input side hooked up to a recording milliammeter. Any electrical agitation the newshawk betrayed under emotional stress would jiggle the milliammeter, make a needle correspondingly scratch a chart...
...instance there are reporters, chart men, statisticians, press announcers, telegraphers, teletype men, and general hangers on. Each Boston paper has a pair of working reporters from the regular staff. But usually outsiders have to be called in to bolster the staff when a half a dozen different games are going on in the vicinity. For this reason students or others are called in the work out the charts of the games, keep the records, and generally help out if the reporters happen to miss a play...
...national Party chairman is supposed to know the curve of the nation's political temperature well in advance of lay observers. Last week, after consolidating the readings of his executive committeemen at a consultation in Chicago, Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton announced that the national fever chart of Landon enthusiasm showed a slump during August, but was now displaying a hopeful rise. In that revelation he was one jump ahead of seasoned political writers, who, as the Presidential campaign rounded its Labor Day corner with only eight weeks to go, were agreed that GOProgress had definitely slacked...
...whether a patient is apt to die of shock as result of an operation, take his pulse and blood pressure while he lies down and again while he stands up, advised Dr. Charles Ward Crampton of Manhattan. The figures indicate the patient's vasotone efficiency according to a chart which Dr. Crampton showed the physical therapists, declaring...
...vast and complicated procedures of making up the two catalogs are much alike. At Montgomery Ward the business is carried through 132 steps on a huge chart. First the buyers try to wangle as much space as they can, each arguing the merits of his own department. Buyers' criticisms of the previous issue are closely heeded. Head of Ward's catalog enterprise is Vice President Frank Folsom, who disclaims the title of editor. Under his eye work 52 copywriters, some 600 artists and layout men. When, after 11 revisions, the page proofs are completely corrected and back...