Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arms for Europe, he explained, was a logical extension of ECA and the Atlantic pact, the final peg in a policy. But arms assistance was not directly "a product of the pact-an instrument which is not yet in effect." On the contrary, said Acheson, "even without the existence of the North Atlantic pact, the need for assistance and the recommended response of this Government would be the same." So, he concluded emphatically: "These requests and our replies therefore in no sense represent a price tag to be placed upon the pact...
...look for a series of familiar tunes on the records of the new Band record album. They aren't there. Except for 'Wintergreen' and Yale medley, everything is new; the first album handled the ivy-covered schools, leaving Brown, Columbia, and Cornell for the new 6-side product...
Time to Awake. A less sinister, but equally significant situation was described by Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders as existing in mass-production enterprise, where the worker performs a specific operation, planned by people he does not know, often for reasons he does not understand. He has no direct connection with the finished product, no voice as to how it is to be used. He can make up for this loss of influence only through social and political participation in his community...
...China had been exporting the finished product to Europe for two centuries before an alchemist named Johann Friedrich Böttger, a protege of Augustus the Strong of Saxony, succeeded in cracking the secret of porcelain making in 1709. His success made it possible for Augustus, an avid collector of the Chinese article, to manufacture...
John Derck, a new product of the star mill who looks as if he should do right well for himself, snarls his way through a ninety-minute career as the poor boy who goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from...