Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still wanted something more automatic and reliable. Working with engineers of Massachusetts' Brunswick Manufacturing Co., they devised the Thumper, which is basically a small (1½ in. by 3 in.) pneumatic plunger strapped to the chest (see cut). Powered entirely by compressed oxygen (small tanks in portable units, bigger ones in hospitals), the HLR supplies a puff of oxygen twelve times a minute through a face mask, while the plunger, which replaces the rescuer's hands, bounces up and down on the victim's breastbone 60 times a minute. On the downstroke it compresses the chest...
...equally vital in sustaining prosperity. Along with the consumer, they created a nonvicious circle: spending created more production, production created wealth, wealth created more spending. Of the three forces, the consumer did just a little more than most people had expected of him and thus gave the economy a bigger boost than it otherwise would have enjoyed...
...less for needs than for wants. The average urban family now spends only 48% of its after-tax income on the food, clothing and shelter that it needs; it has 52% left over to spend or not to spend, as it pleases, on expanding those basic necessities (to a bigger house, more eating out, an extra suit) or adopting more of life's amenities...
...better than that." Lippmann's "something better" called for nothing less than U.S. withdrawal, not only from Viet Nam. but from all of the Asian mainland. "It will be done as part of some much larger and more elaborate diplomatic proposal and action-one directed at something far bigger than South Viet Nam-at an Asian settlement from Siberia to the Himalayas, from the Mekong to the Yalu...
...year-end bonus of cash is not as popular as it used to be, partly because of labor's taste for bigger contractual fringe benefits and partly because of management's growing preference for more sophisticated executive incentives. Even so, the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures that U.S. manufacturers are paying production workers more than $600 million in year-end bonuses this season. Many millions more will go to executives and office help in such places as Detroit, where auto vice presidents often get bonuses equal to twice their salaries, and Wall Street, where 1964's record...