Word: charting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rugged Individualism. He has determined the complexion of the U.S. people with near-mathematical exactitude (see chart) from census statistics, Government reports, etc., has made his own calculation of the U.S. voting population by such adjustments as canceling out non-voting Southern Negroes & poor whites. He knows, for instance, that 28% of U.S. voters live in the Middle Atlantic states, that 34% of them live in cities of over 100,000 population, that only 23% of them are of average means (i.e., skilled workers, white-collar employees, small shopkeepers), that 43% of them are between the ages...
...choosing their subjects to be interviewed, the whole U.S. electorate can safely be reduced to a miniature sample of only 3,000.* And despite the cherished American illusion of rugged individualism, the factors which determine voters opinions are the factors neatly worked out on Dr. Gallup's chart...
Coach Mikkola made sure his athletes didn't get watermelon heads after their third win in a row last Saturday. He put a chart up on the board at Dillon giving Dartmouth a five point bulge in the scoring...
Commander Ronne flew 39,000 miles of mapping flights through air so pure that a pilot could see 200 miles ahead. His special trimetrogon cameras (three cameras working simultaneously) could snap horizon-to-horizon photographs every 20 seconds for the mapmakers. The photos would make it possible to chart the last unknown coastline in the world. With the explorer's prerogative, he named places for friends and colleagues: Edith Ronne Land for his wife, Isaiah Bowman Coast (for the geographer-president of Johns Hopkins), Lowell Thomas Mountains, Larry Gould Bay (for the explorer-president of Carleton College...
...dent had the commodity price break made in the cost of living? Last week Ewan Clague, boss of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, called reporters into his chart-filled conference room to tell them. He had just finished collecting last-minute data, by telegraph, from twelve cities, kept his staff up most of the night assembling it. Said Clague: retail food prices have declined 3 to 4% from their alltime high...