Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...related services soared by 58%. those involved in finance and real estate increased by 41%, and those in public administration by 27%. At the same time, the number of workers in coal mining dropped by 56%, those in railroad and railway express by 31%, and those in textile product industries...
...grey-flannel dismay of advertisers everywhere, thousands of teenagers, are lining up across country to buy a product with almost no value of any kind except for laughs. Its name: Greasy Kid Stuff...
...teens, and the only crops that grow on his 106 acres are grass, alfalfa and hay. But Stanley Dancer is no gentleman farmer. He is up at dawn, rain or shine, employs a staff of 27, meets a weekly payroll of $2,200 and personally markets his product all the way from New York to Florida and California. At 35, Trainer-Driver Dancer is the top man in U.S. harness racing...
...disappointing year largely because it had been overbilled to begin with. In January President Kennedy's economists extravagantly predicted that the gross national product would spurt ahead 10% during the year. But the great growth fallacy exploded in the spring as overpriced stock markets suffered their worst crash since 1937, and unemployment (mostly of the unskilled) rose to a level previously unknown in a period of prosperity. Businessmen began muttering about, and taking precautions against, a recession dead ahead. But in fact by the end of the year most economic barometers were on the rise...
Despite West Germany's current economic slowdown, German industry's most famous product is still speeding along fast enough to puncture a few egos in Detroit. In a letter to his shareholders last week, Volkswagen Chairman Heinz Nordhoff, 63, announced that the company's 1962 sales seem certain to reach $1.4 billion-a 25% increase over 1961. The total number of Volkswagens produced this year will be well over a million, which will put VW second only to G.M.'s Chevrolet Division as the world's biggest producer of a single make of auto. Biggest...