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...yellow filter, and the moon merely an object which it is hard to photograph without a tripod: he approaches the highest peaks through a telephoto lens, scans new horizons through his range finder-and if he ever came across the Blue Bird, he would whip out his color chart...
...students were allowed to quit school at 14 (the present age: 17). But the schools grew nevertheless, and in growing were moved to both experiment and reform. Corporal punishment was condemned in 1850-an era when most U.S. schoolmasters, as a matter of course, still whipped by the chart (one lash for every foot above three climbed up a tree, two lashes for blotting a copybook). New York instituted night schools in 1847, children's classes in hygiene and sanitation in 1885, in sewing, cooking and manual training in 1887, lectures for workingmen...
...zinc at a record rate (an estimated 1,100,000 tons this year) and lead consumption is only a shade below the 1950 peak of 1,200,000 tons. But U.S. mines have not benefited; low-priced imports, up sharply in the last few years, exceed U.S. production (see chart...
...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...