Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Honeydew Project-because the men can retire earlier, go home, and hear their wives say, "Honey, do this-Honey, do that." Senior auto and steelworkers get 13 weeks' annual vacation. The United Brewery Workers are contractually given the right to drink as much of the plant product as they want-without charge...
...Mateos, never found it in his heart to do). For Mexico's ballooning middle class, there was a call to partnership with the public sector in building new businesses and factories. For the progress-minded, there was a rattling off of impressive statistics: in 1965 the gross national product was increasing at the yearly rate of 6%, wages were up 13.5%, the number of tourists was up 14% and heading for an alltime record...
...generally good one. To be sure, his government has been plagued by a long series of nasty scandals, which forced the resignation of two Cabinet ministers as well as Pearson's own parliamentary secretary. But Canada is calm, prosperous and more or less content with a gross national product rising 8% a year. To help heal the divisions between French-and English-speaking Canadians, Pearson pushed through a new Canadian flag and set up a special Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. In the prairie provinces-where the political leanings are Conservative, but the wheat buyer is always right...
Detroit's Bendix Corp. is probably best known for a product it has never made. Confusing the $742 million science and aerospace company with the makers of the old Bendix washer,* housewives telephone company headquarters asking for repairmen to fix their washing machines. Bendix Corp. makes just about everything else, though, from bicycle brakes to missile-tracking systems. It embraces 373 different product lines, 28 divisions, nine U.S. subsidiaries and 22 affiliated companies in ten countries. Last week the company drew yet another operation under its wing: for $5,300,000 worth of stock, it acquired Besly-Welles Corp...
Bendix' management faces the constant problem of trying to bring some order out of the company's diversity. Salesmen from separate Bendix divisions with virtually the same product occasionally wind up fighting for the same customer. Two divisions, for example, are competing to sell flight control systems to the major aircraft manufacturers. Bendix maintains that it thus offers a customer alternatives, calls the system "planned internal competition." But it still has to hold regular monthly meetings of division heads to iron out the conflicts...