Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they do. Most of them agree that good executives are born, not made, and that actual promotions are still more apt to be based on the intuitive hunches of a man's superiors and their "feel" of a man's abilities than on his showing on any chart. For one thing, few men like to be watched, even benevolently. And there is a sort of mechanical bloodlessness about some of the systems which would be more likely to infuriate than elevate a man of first-class talents. Many of the systems put a premium on conformity...
...more protection what the wool men really need? High-quality Australian wool, adding in the present tariff, now costs more than the domestic wool (see chart). Furthermore, wool users, who oppose a tariff increase, argue that any boost in domestic wool prices would actually be self-defeating. A rise in wool cloth prices would decrease consumption even further and increase the use of synthetic fibers...
Inching upward for a fifth straight month, the Government's fever chart on living costs touched a record 114.7 in mid-July (base: 100 for average prices in years 1947-49). Reason: increased rents, some higher food prices (pork, poultry, eggs, fresh milk), higher costs of medical care and transportation. Result: 1?-an-hour wage raise for a million aircraft and automobile workers, whose pay is tied to the cost-of-living index...
...fact is that, despite the inroads made by public power, both federal and local (see chart), the private-utility industry has been growing faster than any other in the U.S. More than doubling every ten years, power output has soared from 82 billion kw.-h. in 1933 to an estimated 440 billion this year; last week, in the once sluggish summer season, output hit an alltime record of 8.5 billion...
Actually, the debt ceiling is almost meaningless. Congress has set a ceiling seven separate times in the past 18 years, but has never failed to raise it whenever the Government needed more money (see chart). Economy-minded Senators, well aware that in the same 18 years the ceiling has been lowered only once (at World War II's end), thought that Humphrey's dilemma would make for quicker, bigger cuts in spending. But they also knew, as did Secretary Humphrey, that the ceiling, as a symbol, meant little, that the important thing was the long-range determination...