Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble began in the winter-lettuce fields near El Centro. Winter lettuce is the valley's most speculative product. The season lasts only three months, from mid-December through mid-March, when most other lettuce producers are weathered in. In that short space of 90 days, the valley's farmers supply the U.S. with 80% of its winter lettuce for an annual take of $22 million. Depending on Eastern supply and demand, prices rise and fall like a roller coaster. Says one grower: "It makes the stock market seem tame by comparison." Into this vulnerable area, where...
...Pure Product. In almost every way, Cincinnati's Robertson is a pure product of the sport of basketball as it has developed in, the U.S. The game was invented in 1891 in Springfield, Mass, by a gym instructor named Jim Naismith, who wanted to give his bored classes a switch from the daily grind of calisthenics. Today basketball is played with eager enthusiasm and improving skill by some 50 nations from Chile to China, but it has remained a distinctly American game. Its virtues are obvious : any number can play, indoors or out, in all seasons. It requires nothing...
...very real sense, the Special Artist was the product of the Civil War, although he had appeared on the 19th century scene some two decades before the war began. In 1842 Herbert Ingram, an English newspaperman, established the Illustrated London News, the world's first successful pictorial news weekly. Ingram's staff artists sent crude sketches from the field that were then engraved, in a leisurely way, to appear as illustrations alongside the printed accounts of important events. By 1860, the U.S. had three successful examples of graphic journalism: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Harper...
There must be something better than more profit-seeking with social welfare appearing only as a by-product, Thomas claimed. Social work until recently has been small and "free-enterprise"; this Jeffersonian ideal of the small unit is impracticable and the Federal Government must often take a hand, he emphasized...
...product of Cambridge schools, a former marine, Sullivan played hockey at B.U., and graduated from B.C. and Northeastern Law School. He has seven children, a boy and six girls, and hopes for an even dozen. He is just as ambitious in other ways...