Word: outgrowths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Family Went Along. Harvey Aluminum is an outgrowth of the Harvey Machine Co., which was founded by Leo Harvey in Los Angeles in 1914. At the start, it made everything from corsage pins to racing cars. Later it turned to making special machinery, and by World War II was the biggest such manufacturer on the West Coast. Young Lawrence had learned metalworking on vacations in his father's shop, had rushed through the University of Southern California, the California bar exams and Harvard Business School by the time he was 22. In 1946 he cut loose from the family...
...Teachers? The Min-Max was invented by Albuquerque's Teaching Machines Inc.. a group of psychologists who already have programed, or composed, seven courses, ranging from elementary spelling to college statistics that are ready for sale by Grolier for $5 to $15 each. Programing is an outgrowth of psychological experiments with animals, which can be taught complicated tricks on a one-step-at-a-time basis if frequently rewarded. Harvard Psychologist B. Frederic Skinner, 56, is the leader in adapting animal conditioning techniques to teaching humans; most machine programing follows his basic research experiments on Harvard and Radcliffe...
Much of the boom in services is a natural outgrowth of the success of the durable goods producer's assembly lines. Nearly $18 billion was spent on autos and auto parts last year, and U.S. motorists paid another $6 billion for servicing them. Nevertheless the prospect of consumers' spending more and more of their money for green fees and plane rides instead of new cars and bigger TV sets is not a happy one for the makers of durable goods. The auto industry has already begun to fight back for a bigger share of the consumer...
...were surprised that you did not mention the League of Women Voters of the U.S., the outgrowth of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and frequently the training ground of women in politics...
...decision was a logical outgrowth of the East-West negotiations on banning nuclear tests. With U.S. experts disagreeing among themselves about detection of underground nuclear tests, the U.S. had repeatedly made clear that 1) it could not enter into an agreement to ban underground tests without further research on methods of detection, and 2) this research, to be reliable, would have to include actual nuclear explosions, not just conventional explosions...