Word: patterning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hope is that brisk sales of 1961 car models later in the year (see below) will give a boost to the lagging steel industry, thus move the whole economy off center. Since January, reported the First National City Bank of New York, industrial production has shown "a classic pattern of rolling readjustment." Right now, that readjustment shows just enough recessive tendencies to prevent the economy from moving forward strongly but not enough to knock it into a recession. If auto sales live up to hopes, the whole picture could change rapidly...
...decide how the stock market is be having, most investors carefully follow the price of their own stocks and the day-to-day movement of the Dow-Jones industrial average. But Wall Street's market analysts watch closely for a far more telling sign: the whole pattern of the market's trading behavior. Since the Dow-Jones average covers only 30 stocks, more can be learned by watching the overall price and volume movements of the more than 1,500 stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. If technical factors in the entire market form a pattern that...
Taken at the Flood, by John Gunther. A friend's excellent biography of the late Albert Lasker, the Madison Avenue pioneer who invented "That School Girl Complexion," dominated U.S. advertising, and cut the pattern for its grey-flannel suit...
Just how tight the profit squeeze will get before it eases is a matter of lively debate. Government economists expect an upturn in profits in the fourth quarter. But Ford Motor Co. Economist Dr. T. J. Obal, who believes the current profit squeeze fits the pattern of an economy in the second year of recovery from recession, thinks that "there will be further slippage." Chase Manhattan Bank Chief Economist Wil liam Butler says that the profit squeeze "is very serious as a long-term matter," argues that it will cause a decline in capital expenditures...
Patternmaker. For lesser men, the hectic pace of Albert Lasker's life would have led to worse things than an interruptible nervous breakdown. In his 44 years with Lord & Thomas (most of them as sole owner), Lasker dominated U.S. advertising and cut the pattern for its grey flannel suit. Under his influence the public was introduced to irium and Amos 'n' Andy, to Kleenex, four-door sedans and soap operas. Yet Lasker was all but invisible: almost nothing was written about him, and two blocks off Madison Avenue his name is still virtually unknown. In this fine...