Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Act, which prohibits the U.S. Government from buying foreign products unless the equivalent U.S. product costs at least 25% higher. Cost to the U.S. taxpayer in unnecessary federal expenditures: $100 million per year. Already, in individual cases, the Eisenhower Administration is seeking ways to get around this depression measure...
...what Zinsser would have called that last "step across to accomplished discovery." Unlike their predecessors, they had used human skin tissue-instead of nerve tissue-on which to grow the disease. Original as their final step may have been, the three associates regard their success as the by-product of all previous work and research in a field of skin culture that dates at least...
...spectacular advance of the American Economy from 1949 to 1953 has created a swell of optimism with respect to the possibilities of future growth and expansion. A Gross National Product of $500 billion, six to eight years hence, has frequently been suggested. Recently President Eisenhower himself referred to some such target...
...Salesmanship and contacts still are useful in finance, but financial business needs men with more assets than these. As other doubtless will write in this edition, there are excellent opportunities for men coming into finance jobs today. But the excellent opportunities are for good man, well trained, who can product results ino a competitive, not a lush, environment...
Even such an ardent evangelist as Sears, Roebuck's Chairman Theodore Houser, whose company is noted for its huge profit-sharing payoffs, admits that the plan will work no wonders "in a business where a major part of the cost of the product is represented by the cost of raw materials." Furthermore, says Houser, profit-sharing "is not the first step in building a program of sound employee relations, but the last step [after a company] can find nothing else...