Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formed his Popular Democratic Party, four years later as senate president organized Operation Bootstrap, and was soon luring mainland industry to Puerto Rico. With generous tax incentives and cheap, plentiful labor, company after company found it profitable to set up plants until today the island's gross national product is growing 11% a year, wages average $1.11 an hour, new investment is running $1,000,000 a day, and per capita income is up to $740-second highest in Latin America, surpassed only by oil-rich Venezuela...
...product of South Boston's melting pot ghetto, Cushing feels a Bostonian kinship to the Kennedys. The cardinal's father, after emigrating from County Cork in 1880, became a blacksmith for the old Boston Elevated. "We were ordinary people, but comfortable," Cushing recalls...
...there is little difference in the won-lost records of the two boats, there is even less in their design. Both were drawn by Scotland's David Boyd, 61, whose first twelve was Sceptre, and who is now a sadder but wiser man. Their hulls are the product of months of tank tests, are virtually identical...
...most serious mistake that U.S. businessmen fall into is their habit of regarding Western Europe as a 51st state, forgetting that a product or business technique that goes over big in Memphis will not necessarily succeed in Munich. The Common Market notwithstanding, Western Europe is still composed of individual nations and sections that have widely different tastes and buying idiosyncrasies. Says Belgium's Marcel de Meirleir, a plant-location expert: "Americans just don't understand that, for instance, Rotterdam and Antwerp are commercially not just two different cities-they're different worlds...
...transportation system -outranking rails and airlines - is spreading across the U.S. in a spaghetti-like maze. Nearly a million miles long, it is almost completely invisible, carries no passengers, is deterred neither by rivers nor mountains. It is the nation's rapidly growing network of oil, gas and product pipelines, which now extends into all of the 49 continental states. Last week the biggest product pipeline of them all, built by Atlanta's Colonial Pipeline Co., slowly threaded its 36-inch ribbon of steel through the swamps and suburbs of New Jersey, two feet underground. Only ten more...