Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Progress into shape. Curiously enough, the delay was a sign of progress. Several Latin American nations requested more time to prepare their requests for U.S. aid. Reporting on his trip to Washington's National Press Club, Envoy Stevenson presented the plight of Latin America's single-product nations, vulnerable to commodity price wobbles, by emphasizing the situation of the 14 countries whose economies depend primarily on coffee. "The change in the price of coffee by half a cent per pound can wipe out all of the economic assistance that we could hope to give them for a long...
...Latest of the persuaders, a rig of FM speakers to spur impulse buying at point of sale. The Sellaprompter, installed by Robolease Corp., bleats a 5¼-sec. sales "prompt" for individual products over speakers 33 times hourly. Big Brother shows its mercy by interrupting prompts for music, is paid for by product manufacturers (e.g., Borden, Heinz, Pillsbury, General Foods). Cost per message...
...element vacuum tube in 1906 led to the development of radio, long-distance telephony, sound movies and television; following a long illness; in Hollywood. In the process of piling up more than 300 patents, the Yale-educated minister's son lost four fortunes, almost came to regret the product of his genius. Wrote he to the National Association of Broadcasters on the 40th anniversary of his audion tube: "You have debased [ my] child . . . You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence . . . a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere...
Williams, an unlikely product of the U.S. Naval Academy, is described by his publishers as one of the nation's "most influential young historians." If this is true, the shortcomings of U.S. education derive from more important factors than cramped classrooms and low teacher salaries...
...television industry at last shows signs of firming up. Besides RCA, which has been the only major manufacturer in the field since 1956, General Electric plans to start making color-TV sets again in the fall. And in Chicago last week, squads of engineers were busily tooling up a production line for Zenith Radio Corp.'s new color set-a product that will be unique in at least one respect. Zenith's prices, company officials proudly claim, will start well above those of competing models now on the market...