Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the way he talks, Bosch sounds like everything the Dominican Republic needs, and right now it needs plenty. Two years after the overthrow of Dictator Trujillo, more than 20% of the country's labor force is still unemployed or underemployed, the per capita growth in gross national product is almost at a standstill, and the illiteracy rate stands...
Hoping that the President can take a joke, Jack Winter '62 former president of the Lampoon is marketing a product called "The Kennedys, a game of intrafamily power struggle...
...Brazil and Uruguay ganged up on their small, landlocked neighbor in a grisly war that halved Paraguay's population to 250,000 and left only 14,000 males. Paraguay has made some progress since then: it now has a population of 1,800,000 and a gross national product of $198 million annually (equal to the annual sales of U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co.). It also has the last remaining old-style dictator in South America...
Founded in 1903 by Le Sueur merchants who wanted to stimulate the town's tired economy, the company started with a single product-corn-and did not add peas to its line until 1907. Cautiously, it added asparagus in 1939, waited another 19 years before putting beans on the market. Only recently has Green Giant hopped boldly into new products. "There is just so much market for canned peas and corn in this world," says President Lurton Eugene Felton, 63, "and we were so concentrated, we were vulnerable." So diversified has the company's line become that even...
Whatever its origin, each product has found such popular appeal that shrewd owners take elaborate pains to maintain and exploit their secrecy. The Angostura formula is brewed twice weekly in 10,000 gallon hatches in a labyrinthine "secret room." Employees at Pimm's Ltd., the makers of a secret gin sling (Pimm's Cup) whipped up in the 1850s by a London chophouse bartender, are forced to take a company loyalty oath. Only four Carthuisan monks know the formula for Chartreuse, and travel between monasteries to make it. The ingredients for Coke's basic 7-X formula...