Word: product
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nervous system before abdominal injections have time to build up protective antibody. Since 1954. these victims have been injected with antirabies serum from horses. This gives only short-lived, "passive" immunity, but it works fast. The trouble is that horse serum is almost as dangerous as the rabbit-brain product. Now, said Dr. Tierkel, veterinarians and others who have had a full course of vaccinations are being asked to take a booster shot of duck-egg vaccine. A month later, they donate a pint of blood. The gamma globulin fraction from the serum in these blood samples is rich...
Ford calls them "product information specialists" and 'Chrysler "competitive study engineers." In Detroit, their trade is often known as "G-2" or "G-4." Whatever their title, they are men employed by each automaker to ferret out the secrets of the others -auto spies. Though the industry officially declines to recognize its existence, espionage is an ever-present fact of life that goes on at all levels in Detroit, from treetops overlooking test tracks to the steam room and bars at the Detroit Athletic Club. The hunting season usu ally begins a couple of model-years in advance, when...
...operatives keep in constant touch with key informants in such sensitive and hard-to-patrol areas as the tool and die shops, design firms, plaster shops, tire companies and art studios that subcontract for the auto industry. Here they can often pick up information that skilled engineers and product planners can assemble into a faithful replica of a rival's new car. Ford, for example, was able to construct a clay model of General Motors' Chevelle nearly a year before its introduction. Most agents do their work so quietly that only a handful of men in each division...
Perched on a high, verdant ridge at Saint Paul de Vence above Nice, the museum is the elegantly terraced product of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Its ochre fieldstone walls blend into the slope; atop the roof, flying scoops shaped like quarter-cylinders trap the harsh Mediterranean light, diffuse it through milky glass, and bounce it off vaults inside to soften it further. Six galleries are devoted respectively to Bonnard, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Chagall, Braque and Miró; the paintings are from Maeght's collection or gifts from the artists...
...only brought dramatic change to an ancient industry but restored some glitter to Britain's industrial reputation. Last week Pilkington completed a licensing agreement that allows Ford Motor to produce float glass for its autos, a move that may lead to widespread use of the new product in the huge U.S. auto market...