Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed limit (67.7%). But despite a "clear warning of the church against games of chance," a few more than 50% saw nothing wrong in bingo, and the onetime Methodist sin of dancing is now frowned on by only 15.2%. Condemned by about 95%: profanity and the misrepresentation of a product "in trying to make a sale...
...gross national product averaged $387 billion, a good 6% higher than 1953's alltime peak. Industrial production was some 10% better than last year and 3% better than the 1953 high. The hard work was well rewarded: corporate profits were a record $44 billion before taxes and $22 billion after taxes; dividends of $10.9 billion were $1 billion more than 1954; average weekly wages of $76 were at a new high...
Because of the success of the American economic system, the U.S. rolled through 1955 in two-toned splendor to an alltime crest of prosperity, heralded around the world. Much of this prosperity was directly attributable to the manufacture and sale of that quintessential American product, the automobile. Some 8,000,000 of them were produced and sold, and a good half of them were made and marketed by General Motors under the direction of President Harlow Herbert Curtice-the Man of the Year...
...Allison Division did, if it were forced to slow down to an artificial pace. Profits, in a modern corporation, have a function beyond providing earned surplus and dividends (and taxes). Under G.M.'s cost-accounting system, they are the key indicator of worth of divisional management, worth of product, personnel policy and planning...
Curtice refuses to talk in percentages of the car market-talks instead in terms of the expanding gross national product. "We have 3% of the G.N.P. now, and we won't have any less than 3% in 1956," he says. Translating into automobile figures, he predicts 1956 U.S. auto production at 7,060,000 (plus 1,190,000 trucks) -down about a million from 1955. G.M.'s share, if it holds its own, will be 3,500,000 cars...