Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than half of the performing groups are college workshops, high schools and conservatories. Knowing that he will probably get his hearing in such a setting, and not at the conservative, perennially strapped Metropolitan, the U.S. opera composer writes in a certain vein. His typical product is a lightweight one-acter with few characters (although it may have a chorus, since singers are plentiful on campuses) and a small orchestra. Its plot is likely to be a fantasy with more moral than melodrama; one act is too short, and young artists are not best suited for grand passion. Its music...
...billion, only about half the size of the drop that the nation took in its stride in the past two years. The overall effect of such a cut on the economy would be mild, since military spending even now comes to no more than 10% of the gross national product...
BUSINESS IN 1955 will break all records, with gross national product hitting $375 billion, some 5% above last year and 3% above 1953's alltime peak, predicts Roy Reierson, chief economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust...
Tears in Africa. The Belgians compare the Congo with the state of Texas, though in fact the Congo is bigger and far richer in its natural resources. The Congo's gross national product has tripled since 1939. Money is plentiful. Belgian investors take more than $50 million a year in dividends alone. Once the Congo depended exclusively on mining and farming; today it manufactures ships, shoes, cigarettes, chemicals, explosives and photographic film. With its immense reserves of hydroelectric power (a fifth of the world's total), the Belgians expect the Congo to become "the processing plant...
Monday. The week began with widespread confidence that the Salk vaccine, excepting possibly some of the Cutter product, was safe and that the real problem was to get enough of it to the right places at the right time. Thus the question of controls loomed larger than that of the vaccine's overall safety. Members of Congress drafted bills providing for compulsory federal controls. But Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby's advisory committee on vaccine distribution adopted a report urging only voluntary controls, relying on "health patriotism." It became increasingly clear that no one in Washington, even...