Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prices. They picked Sept. 9 as the date to put them into effect in the butcher shops. Nobody knew what they would be, although OPA Boss Paul Porter guessed "at or near June 30 levels." But lamb feeders, cut off from a $36 million Government subsidy, were sure their product would have to jump at least 5? a lb. Beef feeders, still smarting under similar subsidy treatment, figured 1#162; a Ib. Meanwhile, meat producers frantically rushed their crops to market (see BUSINESS...
...plays his part with intelligence and a calmness unmoved by the grandeur about him. Vivian Leigh is an effective contrast as Cleopatra, the girlish queen. Flora Robson, as Ftatateeta, a weird combination of killer and nurse, handles herself with barbaric competence. Stewart Granger, who looks like the muscular product of a California beach, manages adequately to make about half the audience squeal ecstatically...
That's the same as asking why able men produce an inferior product and why the public then cheers and buys it. This question cannot be answered outside of Hollywood, and must not be asked inside...
...press, eager but uneasy, got its first look last week at a uranium pile in operation. The occasion: the sale at Oak Ridge of a pile-made radioactive isotope, produced as a peaceful by-product of atom bomb plutonium...
...lies below the waist. These respective parts, each after its own fashion, are perpetually glowing and humming. The flendish ruler of this electrical wilderness likes nothing better than to set a visitor on a chair in the middle of it all and force him to submit to the latest product of his off-hour madness in the way of an identification quiz...