Word: productions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some time ago a grey-haired man who smoked his cigarettes until they scorched his fingertips told us that maturity was the end product of conformity. The happy man, he added sadly, was the one who never admitted to himself that he had conformed...
...first three years in office he won a reputation as an Arkansas-style progressive. He increased taxes, got more money for schools and highways, joined up with Winthrop Rockefeller to create a state industrial development commission. As a product of the hill country (where there are few Negroes), he had no background of race prejudice. In his successful campaign for re-election in 1956, against an avowed segregationist, he came out mildly against enforced integration, but won strong support from Negroes for his moderation. His friends thought he was just playing a vote-trading game last year when he backed...
...Gross national product for 1956 was more than $7.5 billion, up 12% from the previous record year. Production of most foodstuffs was up, with bumper crops of wheat, sugar and beans. Livestock production climbed 11% in 1956; fish nets bulged 48% fatter...
...bloom off Canada's durable boom? Although 6,000,000 Canadians, more than ever before, have jobs, and the gross national product seems sure this year to edge over 1956's record, some soft spots are appearing in an economy that is closely tied to the U.S. Cautioned the Bank of Nova Scotia: "The upward trend of Canadian business has in recent months been tapering...
...built, and a device that its owners, British Petroleum Co. and Compagnie Franchise de Petroles, hope will open up a huge new oilfield off the shores of Arabia's Abu Dhabi sheikdom. But while the barge's owners are foreign, the barge itself is thoroughly American, a product of the De Long Corp., one of the nation's fastest-growing and most inventive engineering and construction firms...