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Dale’s Daily Data: Tonka Toys
Dale’s Daily Data: Tonka Toys
Dale’s Daily Data: Tonka Toys
It was back in 1957 when a group of school teachers in Minnesota came up with a plan to make some money during their summer off from school by making gardening tools for sale.    All of them were expert gardeners and each of them knew of some special function for which a tool should be designed to make a certain gardening job easier: small hand shovels made to fit a woman’s hand, weeders that were
Dale’s Daily Data: The Sun
Dale’s Daily Data: The Sun
Dale’s Daily Data: The Sun
So you think you’re a big deal.  You think you’re pretty important huh?  Let’s compare how big you are in perspective with the earth, the sun, the solar system and the universe. We see the sun as a ball of fire in the sky but it’s 93-million miles away so you really don’t get the impression of how big it really is.  If you were able to put the mass of a...
Dale’s Daily Data: Airline Attendants
Dale’s Daily Data: Airline Attendants
Dale’s Daily Data: Airline Attendants
What’s the number one complaint by airline passengers?  Food?  Cabin noise?  The plane is too cold or hot?  The number one complaint of airline passengers is flight delay.  24% of airline flights are late.  Really not bad when you consider that 76% of flights are on time.  The airline industry considers a ...