Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outfit fronted by ex-G.I. tenorman Jackie Fields. Jackie will be remembered by the ancients for his work with Newton's old band, which also featured Vic Dickenson and Arthur Herbert. The group is still rough and the style is more jump than jazz, but nevertheless Fields' musical product is far more pleasing than the senile, sterile harmonics of nearly every other night club band in this bailiwick of the Irish and Beacon Hill Puritans...
...this improvement may also bring Victor its stiffest competition in 45 years. Decca, second biggest record seller, was waiting only to see how the first Victor album (Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks) sells before coming out with its own unbreakable product for home use. Already on the market was the more expensive ($2.50 a record) vinyl album, Prince Igor, put out by the six-year-old Asch Recording Studios. And manufacturers who never gave records a thought before were ready to move into Victor's bailiwick...
...finished product was not exactly what onetime Ways & Means Committee member Vinson had asked, but it was close. The bill provided for a total tax reduction of $5.3 billion (some $300 million more than Vinson had suggested). It also extended to all levels the relief which the Treasury plan would have concentrated mainly in the lower brackets. The committee also rejected Vinson's proposal for repeal of the excess-profits tax on corporations. Instead it substituted a cut from 85½% to 60% and a promise of total repeal...
Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. performed the neatest reconversion trick of the week. It went into production of a brand-new commercial product: an aluminum canoe. Designed by President Leroy Grumman, who turned out the Navy's Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes, the canoe weighs one-half to two-thirds as much as wooden canoes. A 13-footer weighs only 38 pounds, yet the thin skin is tough enough to deflect anything up to a bullet. When capsized, the canoe automatically rights itself in the water with the help of air tanks...
Another important by-product of the bomb is the "tagging" of vitamins, hormones and food compounds. Normal atoms in their molecules can be replaced, in part, by radioactive ones. As these move through a living organism, they can be followed by instruments sensitive to their radiation...