Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second quarter ends this week, Government economists felt better about the continued growth of the U.S. economy. In the April to June period, they estimated that the gross national product rose to an annual rate of $505 billion, $5 billion more than the first quarter, when the economy at last hit the magic half-trillion mark. The Administration's economic experts expect the G.N.P. to move up to $510 or $512 billion in the third quarter, to $520 billion in the fourth quarter. While this would be below the wild-blueyonder January estimates of some forecasters, the G.N.P. would...
...itself living in today. The individual may do what he likes to further his own gain. The man of wealth owns a whole district of slum dwellings, and feels no pangs of conscience for the hunger, squalor and disease he encourages. The aggressive salesman makes outrageous claims for the product he wishes to sell. The novelist writes a scrofulous book in hope of being on the bestseller list, and television corrupts the public taste ... I seem to have worked myself into a most unhappy state of gloom by all this...
...overseas is one of the new and unavoidable realities of a growing free-trade world market-and that the trend is bound to continue. To keep the shift abroad in proper balance-so that customer, company and labor all profit by it-the U.S. needs to employ aggressive salesmanship, product development and efficiency that will make more and more U.S. products attractive to overseas buyers...
...pleased, however, to know that the hum is universal and not just a product of my New England neighborhood. Misery loves company. MRS. ROBERT ZABARSKY New London, Conn...
...delves into the twisted personality wreckage of the past is the stodgy self-effacing ("I am something of a square") narrator of the novel to whom Mason Flagg was a prep-school idol. Complicated flashbacks reveal that Mason Flagg is something of a heel, the hybrid product of a $2,000,000 trust fund and an incestuously possessive mother. By his 205 he is braining his wife with stray crockery, and swapping bedmates at Greenwich Village parties that Author Styron stops teasingly short of describing...