Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Documented & Direct. The committee's recommendations were, perhaps, not as important as its manner. Its report, like its hearings, was a product worthy of an unusually able appellate court. It was direct, documented and unequivocal. Its impact was far broader than the two censure recommendations. In sum it was a scathing indictment of McCarthyism, condemning the Wisconsin Senator for disregarding the principles of democracy, good government, fair play and decency...
...kilns. After his first ceramics show proved a critical and popular success, he started his own shop with three kilns and two helpers. They worked long and seriously through the week. But on Saturday they had fun, making spontaneous, gay pieces. Since then, these have become the regular product of the Wiinblad kilns. Says Wiinblad: "Now every day is Saturday...
...vitality. Such an issue can be patched together by one lonely editor, trapped with paste and scissors at the end of Summer School, desperately violating back issues. Or it can be last-minute original work by one talented editor, as were the Updike Lampoons. Ideally it is the product of material sent in by and solicited from contributors the whole summer long. The new Advocate, despite some obvious filler, appears to belong to the last category...
EXCUSE ME, BUT VARGAs BLAMING AMERICANS FOR HIS DOWNFALL IN HIS FAREWELL LETTER WAS NOT ONLY A VAGUE PHRASE AGAINST "INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL GROUPS [TIME, SEPT. 6]." HE ALSO SAID, "THE COFFEE CRISIS CAME, AND OUR MAIN PRODUCT WAS VALORIZED; WE TRIED TO PROTECT ITS PRICE, AND THE ANSWER WAS SUCH A VIOLENT PRESSURE ON OUR ECONOMY THAT WE WERE FORCED TO GIVE UP". . . IT IS AMAZING HOW VAGUE YOU CAN BE ABOUT CLEAR ANTI-AMERICAN DEMAGOGUERY WHICH IS NOT PURELY COMMUNIST...
...Agfa-Ansco, later joined the Chicago management-engineering firm of Melvin J. Evans Co. In 1940 he became president of Argus, Inc., built up the company's sales from $1,000,000 to $10 million in ten years. In two years at Waterman, he has stepped up product research, modernized the manufacturing plant and revamped the sales organization. He brought out a sapphire-point pen and last week introduced the Waterman C/F, a nib-point pen that is filled with a cartridge, like a ball point; Howse says it "will put growth back into the fountain-pen business." Howse...