Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delightful reading. To attempt a coherent account with subjects so elusive and mercurial is indeed a formidable assignment and one handled, I think, with great competence. I was glad to note your observation that "the key word is educated," because today's teen-ager is the product of his educational system. Lois V. EDINGER President...
During the past year, he reported, the U.S. gross national product rose $38 billion to a record $622 billion-a growth rate of 6½% . Industrial production climbed 8%, while 1,500,000 new jobs were created and unemployment dropped from a 1963 average 5.7% to 5% at the end of 1964. In December, factory workers earned an average of $106.55 per week, or $3.89 more than the previous December. His figures indicated that average personal income gained nearly 6% , and corporate profits soared by more than...
...travel for pleasure is a consumer product, just like a new car or TV set, and people should be able to buy it just as easily as a consumer product, in installments." So says American Airlines President Marion Sadler-and he is seeing his wish take wings. Air travel is the fastest growing segment of the nation's credit-card business. Already, a total of 61 U.S. and foreign airlines have agreed to honor American Express's credit card, 48 are honoring Diners' Club, and 31 do business with Hilton's Carte Blanche...
...first Australian ship ever to carry Australian oil. Its journey also marked the high point in a one-man crusade to save Australia's $118 million coal industry from an onslaught by foreign oil companies, which have been saturating the market with vast quantities of low-cost, waste-product fuel oil from their Australian refineries...
...this, according to Administration economists, will help boost gross national product to $660 billion, a $37.7 billion gain. Personal income is expected to rise by $28.6 billion to $520 billion, and corporate profits by $3.9 billion to $61 billion-that is, if the economy steams ahead past mid-1965, the point at which the extra fuel provided by last year's tax cut will be all but spent...