Word: chart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zero to one hundred to one thousand! BOOM!!" thundered the tape recorder. There was another silence, and then the machine resumed in a matter-of-fact tone: "You see that we have quite a margin to expand above 4.0." (The number refers to the Chart of Human Evaluation, which measures one's mental health by the standards of Dianetics...
...explain one of the uses to which the Chart is put, the tape recorder described an hypothetical case: suppose some unfortunate finds he has a low rating on the Chart; he then asks an auditor (Dianetics for psychoanalyst) if things are really that bad. According to the tape recorder, "He (the unfortunate) is asking you (the auditor) to say no, and he'll really keep it up until you say yes, and then he'll spin...
...subject abruptly changed from the Chart to philosophical matters. The United States has a "punishment-drive society," based on a "mere theory which has more Mest than Theta." (Mest, it seems, represents matter in time and space, and Theta represents thought. Most plus Theta equals N-Theta, which in turn has something to do with the formation of engrams, Dianetics for neurosis) "Shut up you little bral that's education," pointed out the tape recorder as an example of the punishment-drive. As a result of this overemphasis on Mest, people do not know themselves; instead, they "give a present...
...than shortening. The procurement time for parts, which should also be narrowing as the pipelines fill up, is actually widening. A year ago, it took Lockheed 38 weeks to get deliveries on landing gear; now it takes 56 weeks. On other components the time lag is often greater (see chart-). Cried one worried aircraft producer: "We have wasted a year...
...first nine months, said General Motors, 76? of every sales dollar went to pay its employees and suppliers (see chart); more than 15? (and 3? for every cent of net profit) went for taxes. During the third quarter, the tax bite under the new tax bill was huge, but not as big (on an annual basis) as it looked. G.M., like many other companies, set aside enough in the third quarter to pay all of the retroactive tax increase to date. Thus the tax boost ($30 million) was three times as big as it will be in future quarters...