Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NEVER say a good word about my secretary outside the office," says a Chicago lawyer. "If I did, somebody else would have her on his payroll tomorrow." To many U.S. businessmen such caution is normal. Though a record 21 million U.S. women are working, only about 2 million hold secretarial jobs-and only a small percentage are genuine secretaries. As prosperity piles up the paperwork, the shortage becomes more severe; some 250,000 secretarial jobs go begging every day. "We just need bodies," moans a Midwest employment agent. "There haven't been enough secretaries, or even file clerks...
...last? Looking straight at the big question mark, the middle-aged momentarily see the ghost of the '30s like an old roll-your-own cigarette machine back in the closet. But for the active executive, as for the active consumer, the question usually brings only a healthy caution or a moment's discomfort. "I don't find anybody really scared," says one steelman, "but there is plenty of studied concern...
...sold of the 1956 model.) This year so far auto manufacturers are keeping inventories firmly under control so that even if a warm-weather upsurge fails to develop they will not be caught with last year's heavy stocks. But optimism is still far stronger than caution. Said a Chrysler official: "Our real worry is that we won't be able to build up enough inventory to meet the spring demand...
...Eisenhower concept, carrying downward through all levels of U.S. foreign policy, thus reflects a growing U.S. move to recapture the spirit of the logic of what the Navy's great theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, called "reasonable policy supported by might," limited by Theodore Roosevelt's word of caution, "I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that I shall be eventually able to carry out my will by force...
...Council does retain direction of the Combined Charities Drive, it should, profiting from this year's example, exercise far more caution in the selection of a chairman. The Council has generally shown itself lacking in backbone, but its retreat before the threat of resignation by this year's leader was ignominious. To avoid such unfortunate, if not degrading incidents, in the future, the Council should screen its potential agents with care, and exercise a firm control over his activities once he has been appointed. It is now too late to remedy the failure of the 1957 campaign, but there...