Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cited statements from several Soviet newspapers, calling Walter Lippmann "a faithful servant of monopolistic circles" and Brooks Atkinson, New York Times drama critic, "a mercenary bandit, not fit to whip ... a product of the Stock Exchange and the black markets...
...Colorado College reached for a West Pointer [TIME, Dec. 22] in hiring Major General W. H. Gill (ret.), it was fortunate in not getting what it reached for. Like General Marshall, Gill is a product of Virginia Military Institute, and like him is more a man and less a martinet than the products of the U.S.M.A...
...time coming. Among others, Inventors John V. L. Hogan and William G. H. Finch, who have rival systems, have worked on it for 20 years. In the 1930s, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Columbus Dispatch and other dailies experimented with it, but reproduction was slow and the carbon-paper product didn't seem to have a future. The war interrupted research; in 1944, eight radio stations and 17 newspapers, linked as Broadcasters Faximile Analysis, matched $250,000 of Hogan's money to get it going again...
...gross national product (total goods and services produced) was $230 billion, 13% higher than the record peacetime peak of 1946. Like the New Look, some of the astronomical figures of dollar volume were not so impressive as they seemed. The rise in the gross national product was due in part to price rises. But in items turned out, 1947's industrial production was 23% above 1946's surprising total...
Koerner now lives in Brooklyn, painting full-time to get ready for his first one-man show in a Manhattan gallery next month. He feels sure that Americans as well as Germans will understand Vanity Fair, which Koerner describes as "the end-product of the things I saw and painted in Germany. It might be called 'Everybody,' because everyone is in it-America too. The picture describes how we all live, separated...