Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elusive birds had been flying. He failed. But in his search he stumbled on a promotional opportunity: since many equally obscure points are disputed over pints of stout, why not publish a book for Britain's 73,000 pubs? It would keep the company's name, and product, on everybody's lips...
...Rock well, chairman of Pittsburgh's Rockwell Manufacturing Co. and Rockwell-Stand ard Corp. (pumps, valves, automotive parts and Aero Commander planes). Says he: "With high U.S. wages and raw-material costs, high taxes and low depreciation write-offs, I don't know of a single U.S. product that could compete with European industry." The nearest thing to unanimous opposition to the Kennedy program was heard among businessmen in the South - partly because much of the South's burgeoning new industry moved there to escape high wage costs elsewhere and fears that lower tariffs will offset...
...despite its whopping $21 million loss in the first nine months of 1961, Chrysler's books for the full year would be in the black by "several million dollars"-thanks to a combination of low er costs, tax credits, and improved business in the company's nonautomotive products (air conditioning, military contracts, etc.). Before he is through, Townsend confidently expects to send Chrysler's auto sales curve soaring again. Says he brusquely: "The biggest product tear-up ever is in the works for next fall...
Earl Wilson, columnist for the New York Post, mentioned the Penguin in his column recently, calling it "a new Harvard dance gaining in popularity." He said it was evidently the latest product of the twist craze...
Economists and businessmen are in considerable agreement in their predictions for 1962. In the language dear to the canny winegrowers of Burgundy, they foresee a good year but not a great one. Almost all hands predict that the gross national product will rise this year from $521 billion to somewhere around $560 billion, an increase of 7%. The industrial production index should climb from its recession low of 102 in February last year to better than 120 by year's end. And forecasters have the comforting conviction that consumer prices will probably inch upward by only 1%, meaning that...