Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such scenes were being enacted nightly last week around Milan's famed Cathedral Square and in Genoa, Como and Rome. "Klaxon girls," as the Italian press calls them, are the latest product of Italy's industrial boom, and they may revolutionize the peninsula's oldest profession...
Galbraith's The Liberal Hour, with which I began this piece and from which I have wandered a good deal, is a far better book than Conscience of a Conservative and Coming Political Breakthrough. It is not a campaign document, nor even necessarily an election-year product, and thus does not suffer from the terrible solemnity of the other two works. The Liberal Hour is a brief, entertaining collection of lectures and writings on a fairly wide variety of subjects; only one section (containing four selections) touches directly on important political topics...
Industrial production, overall employment and the gross national product, all of which behaved well for the first six months, have suffered setbacks. Gross national product is not expected to show any increase in the third quarter. Unemployment has not dropped, nor total employment risen in line with seasonal expectations. The Federal Reserve Board's Index of Industrial Production has reversed its upward direction, was down one point in August...
Generations of busy mothers have long blessed Mead Johnson & Co., maker of Pablum, Dextri-Maltose and a cradleful of other ready-mixes for plumping up baby. Last week many of the same mothers were buying a new Mead Johnson product, a powder called Metrecal, with an opposite aim: taking weight off themselves...
Creating an Illusion. For Mead Johnson & Co., founded in 1900, Metrecal is a new trick coaxed out of an old product. The man who turned the trick: President Daniel Mead Johnson, 46, grandson of Founder Edward Mead Johnson. D. Mead joined the company in 1936 as a New York salesman, in 1949 became vice president of sales and, in effect, chief executive. Concerned that the company was almost exclusively identified with baby needs, he set up a research department (1960 budget: $3,500,000) to develop a diverse line of Mead Johnson products...