Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House vote of 219 to 150, a new four-year agriculture bill that would increase wheat prices an average of 150 a bushel, lower supports for next year's cotton crop from 300 to 210 a pound, with compensatory federal payments to growers who agree to limit production. Overall, the bill aims at reducing the Government's $4 billion annual price tag for farm surpluses by about $100 million. The bill was the product of a House-Senate conference committee, now goes to the Senate...
...Eastman Kodak Co., casting about for an advertising slogan to sell its product, came up with "You press the button, we do the rest." The slogan worked and, with a little help from the corner druggist, cameras sold. George Eastman's success was a bitter pill for a 24-year-old photographer named Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz was not selling a competing product; he was coveting recognition for photography, in particular, his photography, as art.
...only that we will be catch-phrased and crisis-mongered to death," writes Ben J. Wattenberg, a 32-year-old native of New York who has collaborated with former U.S. Census Director Richard M. Scammon on a book called This U.S.A. To be published next month, it is a product of 18 months that Wattenberg spent analyzing findings of the exhaustive 1960 decennial census, with Scammon's expert guidance. The book's refreshing and detailed conclusion is that the current proliferation of "capital-lettered afflictions" is largely a mirage. Wattenberg writes: "There is a balanced, historical view available...
...cars are due to be scrapped in the next twelve months, while the rich market of Americans aged 16 to 20 will bulge at 12.5 million. The typical family can certainly afford a new car-or two. In the past year, the nation's gross national product has increased 6.5%, personal income has jumped 7% and industrial production has climbed 8%. Their instincts as well as their computers tell Detroiters that the industry will be selling 10 million cars a year by 1970, and 12 million...
...most German breweries, it owns and leases restaurants and beer halls to make sure that only Lowenbrau-German for "lion's brew"-is served in them. Löwenbräu is also a Munich Coca-Cola bottler. But beer remains by far the company's biggest product-26 million gallons this year. It comes in 16 varieties, from a 1.5% light beer for expectant mothers to a heady 6% brew so nourishing that Bavarian monks in the past drank it to supplement their meager diets during Lenten fasts. The company emphasizes beer's importance by giving...