Word: chart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rebuilt Cabinet. No President in history has given more attention to efficient organization and delegation of work in the executive branch. Under the Eisenhower reorganization, all major decisions funnel up to the President through a whole chart of special committees, boards and councils* that screen policy ideas. At the top are the NSC and the Cabinet. Matters of defense strategy move up through the NSC, broad questions of national policy in all fields by way of the Cabinet. When a problem reaches the President's desk, the facts presented to him are as reliable as the U.S. Administration...
...that remains of Bellame and his crew is on one of the 70,000 maps which form Widener's collection. On a chart drawn by a Boston cartographer rests this conclusion: ". . . I came through with a whale boat being ordered bye Government to look after Pirate Ship Whido Bellame Commandr. . . cast away 26 of April 1717 where I buried One Hundred and Two Men Drowned." An occasional doubloon from Bellame's hoard is still washed up on the sands...
...spends ". . . hours each day in his national committeeman's headquarters in the Biltmore Hotel." On Mondays and Fridays he ". . . holds court ... in Tammany Hall." He "averages a dozen speeches a week . . . He politicks at his kitchen table from 8 a.m. and all the while he is trying to chart the presidential candidacy of the Governor of New York, Averell Harriman, etc., etc." Tell me-do our taxes pay this man a salary as Secretary of State...
...looking graph alongside is misleading. In the text, you say that the customer pays 25% down ("common terms nowadays"). This means that he owes initially only $1,800, which is less than the $1,920 the car is then worth . . . You ought to correct the impression given by the chart...
...with 25% down and 30 months to pay (common terms nowadays). The moment the owner proudly drives his shiny new car home, it becomes a used car, and depreciates 20%. Thus for the first 97 months he has the car, he owes more than the car is worth (see chart). This is a danger period, says G.M.A.C., because "customers who have paid less than ten monthly payments on their cars account for 82% of G.M.A.C. new-car repossessions...