Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afraid of becoming a monopoly? Answered Curtice: "We have to keep aggressively competitive in all areas in order to keep sure of maintaining even our position." To show what he meant, Curtice predicted that by 1962 auto registrations will rise 30%, with a gross national product of $500 billion. Then Capehart spoke up again. The line of questioning, it seemed to him, had nothing to do with the stock market. Snapped Fulbright: "You have no right continually to criticize my questions." But Capehart disagreed. "I am going to continue to do so because I am thoroughly-100%-convinced that...
...Automatic Factory. Businessmen already envision a day when the brains will be used not only for paperwork problems, but to operate factories, to run auto production lines or any plant where a process can be reduced to a preset, repetitive system. Swiftly and obediently, the big robot will start and stop production lines, supervise all the machines, correct faulty workmanship, inspect the finished product, package it and ship it out to U.S. consumers...
...writer describes her husband as a "typical Hahvud product." His blood is "True Blue and backed by plenty of Folding Green. His hollow legs are encased in gray flamed and his pink Brooks Brothers shirts match his political opinions...
Russia's underworked consumers'-goods advertising agency, a sort of low-pressure B.B.D. & Omsk, got a new product to talk about last week. Over Radio Moscow floated the words of a U.S. style commercial: "A new limousine, the Volga, has been built at the Molotov Gorky Motor Works . . . The new car has an unusually broad windshield and a number of gadgets including a clock on the dashboard, a radio and a heater. Everything is well designed and of excellent workmanship . . . far surpasses the Pobeda in elegance of lines and finish and is much roomier. For long-distance travel...
...enjoys only in his own country is the ever-increasing number of modern, luxurious motels. In 1951, the American Automobile Association remarked that anyone who has a "pile of bricks and a vacant lot" puts up a motel. Today, competition for the tourist dollar is even more acute, the product more enticing. How tempting and comfortable some of these motels can be is shown in our four-page color spread; what the industry is like is told in The Boom That Travelers Built, in BUSINESS...