Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...massed columns of figures the 1961 budget reflects U.S. confidence in the present and hopes for the months ahead. The whopping revenue estimates were based on Treasury Department forecasts that, in calendar year 1960, the U.S.'s gross national product will soar for the first time in history above the $500 billion mark-and by at least $10 billion. Even so, President Eisenhower was able to say happily at his news conference last week: "We are accused of being too conservative...
...Self-Defense Force," not as an army. Similarly, a division is called an "area unit," and a tank, a "special combat vehicle." But, under whatever name, Japan's armed forces are small, and required to make do on less than 2% of the nation's gross national product. Pacifism is so ingrained in the new Japan that not even Kishi is likely in the foreseeable future to get more money or more men for this anomalous army...
...farm hand who had once worked on the Clutter farm, told two fellow convicts, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, about a safe full of money that Herbert Clutter kept in the house. The safe, like the local legend of Herbert Clutter's great wealth, was a product of imagination, but that trivial fable was the beginning of a twisted thread that for the Clutters ended in terror and death (TIME...
Though A.S.R. is the second largest (after Gillette) razor-blade manufacturer in the U.S., until recently it has suffered from unimaginative marketing policies. With its extensive advertising, promotion and consumer-research programs, Philip Morris hopes to beef up A.S.R. sales; other consumer-product possibilities for the new combine are candy, shaving creams and men's toiletries...
When Allyn pushes his company into a new country, he tries to give the market the product it wants, not the product he thinks it ought to have. For example, N.C.R.'s bookkeeping machines for the Middle East make entries from right to left as the Arabs do, have 72 Arabic characters and figures. Allyn believes in hiring the people in each country to run his business, is proud that there are only six U.S. citizens among his 23,000 employees overseas...