Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will become available only when the central statistical administration publishes its 1965 report next January, but it is possible to make the following estimates on the basis of the official nine-month report and recent speeches by Kosygin, Polyansky and I. T. Novikov. Within the overall volume of industrial production, the targets for producer goods will easily be overfulfilled, while those for consumer goods (one quarter of the total) will not be met. The gross agricultural product will have grown by 7% instead of the 70% envisaged. The minimum wage was to have been increased from 27 to 35 rubles...
...advertisers. Before year's end, 60% of all commercials made will be in color. Once committed, advertisers find that color costs about 30% more (up to $35,000 for a one-minute message), takes twice as long to make and often creates difficulties in the reproduction of a product's true tone and appearance. One agency rejected a commercial twelve times before its client was satisfied with the color; some packages, including Post Cereals and the Kroger Co.'s private labels, have had to be redesigned to appear more colorful...
Spain's burro-paced economy has started to gallop. Industrial output has nearly doubled in the past five years. By 1975, the country's gross national product is expected to reach $30 billion, almost twice its current $16.6 billion. As one of Europe's potential-growth speedsters, Spain has naturally attracted sizable inflows of foreign capital, which the government has welcomed. But inevitably the main job of financing Spanish business expansion must come from within the country...
...Frank Sinatra and Jack Paar at every possible opportunity, she had only good things to say about Pop Singer Johnny Ray or Broadway Producer Richard Kollmar, her husband. She also wrote kindly about a Latin American playboy-until she learned that the playboy did not exist. He was the product of a pressagent's imagination...
...Another fascinating market lies east of the Iron Curtain. West ern nations are now in the mood to consider bids from the satellites-provided that they agree to let inspectors check regularly that the atoms are used only for peaceful power. This could be difficult, because one inevitable by-product of the reactors is plutonium, which is a major ingredient in nuclear bombs...