Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's gross national product is now running 11% above the record set in 1953. Even at its present high rate, the output does not meet the demand. There are shortages of steel and cement for domestic use, and of newsprint, chemicals and metals for eager foreign customers...
...like to try and spell out what makes South Pacific so much the product of our time and country . . ." At this point, Bernstein is apt to drop his expressive hands helplessly and conclude: "There are millions of things I want to do. I'm afraid there just isn't time for all of them...
Since 1940, the population of the U.S. has gone up 26%, from 132 million to 166 million. In the same period, the annual gross national product has been pushed up 286%, from $101.4 billion to $391.5 billion. Such a massive increase in goods and services might seem to be enough to take care of the increased population, but a third factor makes a difference. Since 1940, personal income in the U.S. has risen a spectacular 293%, from $78.3 billion to $307.5 billion...
Meat Preserver. To keep poultry, beef and other meats fresh for several days without refrigeration, American Cyanamid Co. has developed a product called Acronize. It contains a minute amount of aureomycin, an antibiotic. Applied to meat, it stops the early growth of bacteria, main cause of food spoilage...
...spirit, U.S. publishing would be a far less prosperous enterprise than it is. This year the trade is ready once again for the growing number of people whose gift problems seem to be most easily resolved by handsome, outsize volumes, preferably loaded with pictures. A sampling of the current product...