Word: product
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been in vain. Blonde Betty Lee Woolridge was an almost classic example of the wreckage caused when a heart is crippled by rheumatic fever. At 21, Betty Lee weighed only 85 pounds; veins in her neck stood out like whipcords; her abdomen was swollen with a fluid by-product of congestive heart failure. Doctors in her home town of Canton, Ohio had told her she had only a year to live...
...first postwar shipment of Japanese rayon arrived in the U.S. But it gave U.S. rayon men no competitive worries. The Japanese product was so poor that importers could sell little of the cloth to U.S. buyers. They were offering it for reexport at about 50? a yard, considerably under domestic prices...
...down to 40 m.p.h. The government also asked motorists to cut out-of-town jaunts to one a fortnight. Chile's fuel future looked bright. With great fanfare, scientists at the University of Concepcion cracked 150 liters of petroleum from the new Tierra del Fuego fields, pronounced the product excellent...
...Critic Shaw was all sympathy: "Somewhere in the middle of rehearsals [the authors†] discovered they wished to rewrite the script almost entirely." But "the theater today has . . . the quality of a conveyor belt [which] moves in an inexorable rhythm toward the set moment at which the finished product must be taken off the line and sold. This may be all very well for an automobile...
Above all, "The Treasure" is a unique Hollywood product. The cliches of romantic interest have almost been avoided; the movie has violent action, but for other purposes than immediate sensation; both Humphrey Bogart, who has been playing the same stock tough man for the last five or six years, and Walter Huston, whose last important part was in "Duel in the Sun," are able to do some original acting. The result is a movie with some power, a movie different from anything Hollywood has previously produced...