Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's income, Japan this year will rank third in the world in G.N.P., after the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., but 20th in per-capita income. One of the secrets of Japan's 11.4% average annual growth rate, compared with the U.S.'s 4.3% during the 1960s, is that Japan permits its businessmen to deduct from their taxes nearly twice as much depreciation as does...
Electric Effect. Such innovations had an electric effect on company earnings, which had been under pressure during the early 1960s from some unprofitable acquisitions, as well as rising competition from Japanese camera makers. Since 1962, however, profits have more than tripled to last year's $ 11 million...
Boost for Mumbo. Operation Breadbasket grew from successful Negro boycotts in Philadelphia in the early 1960s and spread to Atlanta, where King's men have claimed 5,000 new jobs for Negroes in the past six years. Currently, Jackson has plans to deploy his pickets in several Southern cities. "Our tactics," he insists, "are not ones of terror. Our biggest concern is to develop a relationship so that the company has a respect for the consumer and the consumer will have respect for the company. As buying power among Negroes increases, they will be able to spend more money...
...Western colleges. The ruse wasn't uncovered until someone in Oregon thought to call Andy in New York. Warhol's inspiration to pull the same dodge in Stockholm was dashed when he recalled that he has known the Moderna Museet's director since the early 1960s...
...1960s, several young artists -most notably Andy Warhol and California's Bruce Conner - have abandoned the paint tube for the film can, leading their fans to hail the underground cinema as the birth of "a new art form." Rebirth would be more like it. The first artists to experiment with film were the Dadaists and surrealists in the 1920s, including Duchamp and Man Ray. The most inventive of the lot was a film maker who, as an artist, is all but unknown...