Word: laddering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rivers (the Rogue, Umpqua and Smith) that could be made to flow southwest at slightly greater cost. They would yield about 6,000,000 acre-feet and bring another 2,000,000 acres into production, perhaps in the Mojave Desert or the Imperial Valley. And above this ¼ladder¼ of rivers, as the bureaumen call it, lies the Columbia, the biggest prize of all. Its basin and adjacent "water surplus" areas now waste into the sea 300 million acre-feet a year. One-fifth of its flow would fill all needs of the Northwest, leaving an exportable surplus...
...sure had. Frederick Moore Vinson had solemnly mounted the Washington ladder-Congressman, U.S. court of appeals Judge, U.S. Economic Stabilizer, Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, Secretary of the Treasury and then Chief Justice-lately with a helping hand from his good friend Harry Truman. The question now: How much further will Fred Vinson go, with Harry Truman's help? White House Democrats, who don't really know what the boss's plans are (as of last week they thought he probably wouldn't run again), think that Harry Truman, if he does not run, will...
...front." As a result of the disaster, Congress passed a law requiring every ship with more than 50 passengers to carry wireless. American Marconi set up a school to fill the sudden demand for operators; Sarnoff became an instructor at the school, rapidly moved up the ladder to commercial manager...
Other top corporate changes last week: CLEO F. CRAIG, 58, was named president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. four days after President Leroy A. Wilson died (see MILESTONES). Craig came to A.T. & T. at 20, right out of the University of Missouri, moved up the executive ladder to general manager and vice president of Long Lines, became A.T. & T.'s No. 2 man when he was elected vice president of finance and revenue in 1949. LIEUT. GENERAL ALBERT C. WEDEMEYER, 54, retiring commander of the U.S. Sixth Army and a leading witness at the MacArthur hearings (TIME, June...
McGeorge Bundy, recently made an Associate Professor, didn't receive his appointment by researching his way up the academic ladder. Instead he has worked on everything from the GOP Policy Committee to plumbing, and his career has been refreshingly non-academic...