Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some reason the Philoctetes has long mouldered in relative obscurity. Adams House and translator Robert Torrance are to be commended for staging this sensitive product of Sophocles' maturity before a Harvard audience for the first time since...
...December low. There was a $3.5 billion pickup in personal income to an annual rate of $409.5 billion-the first gain since last October. Retail sales were still up 1% over February, to an $18.1 billion annual rate. Government economists have increased their estimates of the gross national product for the second quarter from a $502 billion-to-$503 billion annual rate to a range of from $505 billion to $510 billion...
...company's expenditure on research and product development was increased from 3% to 5% of gross sales. As sales rose sharply through mergers and diversification, the research outlay has more than tripled to $4,500,000 a year...
Rising Profits. A merger in 1958 with the Marchant Co., a maker of calculators and adding machines, helped Mead fill out a compact line of office equipment and brought a change in the corporate name to Smith-Corona Marchant. Out came a stream of new products. Among them: a new line of small calculators, and two compact, electronic business machines-the Typetronic 2215 and 6615-which are basically educated typewriters. Linked to either a punch taper or a computer, they can do such tasks as filling out orders and calculating accounts. Smith-Corona also will have on the market within...
Egbert insists on knowing the basics of whatever he is doing. At Boeing Airplane Co., as assistant superintendent of production on B-17s, he studied engineering so he could talk a mechanic's language. During World War II, when he went into the Marines as an Air Transport Service officer, he learned to fly to know a pilot's problems. After the war he went to McCulloch Corp., helped build it up from a tiny company housed in Quonset huts. He took his wife on outboard races on the rough Colorado River through the Grand Canyon...