Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody is more concerned about water than U.S. industry, which already uses about 80 billion gallons daily, will siphon off 200 billion gallons daily (exclusive of water power) by 1975. Whatever the product, the choice of any plant site often depends on how much fresh water is available. After World War II, for example, General Motors wanted to take over a Lima (Ohio) plant that it had operated for the Government, but backed out because it could not get a guarantee of future water supplies. Ford Motor Co. built a huge new plant at Walton Hills, outside Cleveland, but only...
...guided by intuition and feelings as well as custom and intellect, is as concerned with the mysteries of religion and the unconscious as with the certainties of science. He might even become telepathic-there's no telling what he might do. Although he is clearly the product of a feminine imagination-in fact, he has everything but a dimple in the chin-this New Man would be an eminently desirable citizen...
Concluded the committee: "More money should be spent on research and development and . . . relatively less money should be expended in the production of titanium sponge ... It is evident that the Government, by assuming substantial risk in obtaining heavy production of a product not yet commercially acceptable has cost the taxpayer many millions of dollars - and may cost him a great deal more...
Heinz faces a major problem in marketing its new line : old people do not like to admit they are old, often shy away from special preparations for them. (Borden's Gerilac, a milk product for oldsters, flopped.) Heinz hopes to overcome consumer resistance by an educational advertising campaign, plans to expand into vegetables, fruits, custards...
...potential market for geriatric foods is well worth the risk Heinz is taking. By 1960, there will be 23 million people over 60 in the U.S. While a baby eats baby food for only about two years, an oldster could be a consumer of the new product for 15 years or more...