Word: duction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countries in Africa increased farm production by 2%, while population went up an estimated 2.5%. By contrast, the food-shy developing countries in Asia, where ancient methods of farming are gradually giving way to more efficient cultivation of high-yield strains of rice and wheat, increased their food pro duction by 5% for the second year in a row. The biggest gains were made by Malaysia (11%) and Thailand (8%). In the Western world, the U.S., Canada, Australia and Western Europe continued to accumulate huge surpluses of vital foodstuffs...
...entire economy. Since the money supply was tightened only six months ago, White House Economist McCracken figures that the U.S. is now going through the "awkward months" of waiting for the effects to become vis ible. When money is restricted and taxes raised, the usual sequence is that pro duction slows down after some months, then profits drop and businessmen cut back on hiring. Prices are the last to fall. Usually they come down only after demand slackens substantially; some times, they rise right through a recession...
Bucharest these days is aswarm with West German, British, French and Jap anese visitors peddling such industrial tools as airplanes, chemical equipment and textile machinery. Already half of Rumania's trade is with non-Communist countries, compared with only 20% a decade ago. Rumania's industrial pro duction grew 12% in 1968, the great est increase of any country in the Eastern bloc. The expansion was more than twice as rapid as that of Czechoslovakia or Hungary, and it exceeded the U.S.S.R.'s growth rate by one third...
...Long Day's Journey into Night for the edification of Japanese actors and di rectors. Later, Tokyo's prestigious Kumo (Cloud) theater company mount ed a Japanese version of the play, which was so successful that it actually broke even - a rare feat for any Japanese pro duction that is not traditional kabuki...
...stamp of credibility. Advocates of the dialogue sermon point out that since industry, government and education have discovered the virtue of the seminar and the conference, the church should also explore this avenue of intellectual discovery. According to Dr. Robert Luccock, professor of homiletics at Boston University, the intro duction of dialogue in worship means that "we are beginning to take seriously the idea that every Christian is in a true sense a minister...