Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these factors are now paying off in deficit dividends-the actual presence of our Armies completely negating the high-powered advertising that preceded us, a product that didn't live up to its label because someone forgot to put in the right ingredients...
...have thought of working for TIME before the war, but now they want a job which will make some contribution to the kind of world they fought for. They say that TIME is the kind of outfit they would like to work for, that they like TIME'S product and its viewpoint - a comment which must have come largely from reading TIME'S domestic and overseas wartime editions...
They didn't then that this seemingly innocuous "tinsel" was a product of one of the great secret projects of the war, the development of countermeasures against enemy radar. The full story of this program, which cost more than 24 millions dollars and which is estimated to have prevented the loss of more than 450 bombers and 4,500 lives in the Eighth Air Force alone, was released yesterday by the War and Navy Departments...
...Glory Road. Trujillo is the end product of a U.S. military occupation. When the U.S. forces got out of the Dominican Republic in 1924, Trujillo was a Major in the Marine-trained Army. By 1930 he had fought his way into the presidency...
...underground factory was a product of the war. When the Germans came to Podmokly (which they called Bodenbach) they seized the Krizek Works, Czechoslovakia's largest producer of copper wire, the area was rich in coal and hydroelectric power, and had excellent communication facilities. Later they imported French, Belgian and Russian laborers, and set them to work expanding the Krizek plants. Laboratories were built, buildings enlarged, new units erected. One of the new units was put underground, and was supersecret. It was known simply as "the Weser...