Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saying in Cabinet meetings that every item of expense must be examined in the light of the new bomb threat. Last week, in a public speech, Humphrey went a step farther: the new Joint Chiefs of Staff must produce a defense plan that will be a "real new product." Said Humphrey: "It won't be done just by putting some additional chrome on the bumper. We have to have a brand new model. . . and still [spend] less money...
...Thought for Congressmen. Does this mean that coal, and many another U.S. product which has no natural export market, is to be shut out of benefits of an expanded foreign trade? Not at all. The trade-not-aid program assumes (correctly) the existence of a wide and intense demand for certain products, e.g.. automobiles and refrigerators, which the U.S. can make at a price attractive in free world markets. If the U.S. lowers its trade barriers, and imports those products which other nations make better and cheaper, then foreign buyers will have enough dollars to satisfy their demand...
...over the globe, he has found he can ship British tractors through the Panama Canal cheaply enough to compete with Midwest tractor makers for California sales. Says he: "We wouldn't try to sell in the Midwest, because those farmers are like our Yorkshiremen-inclined to distrust a product they don't know. Californians are willing to try something...
Each one drove a car hand-built from standard stock parts and revamped for racing, had spent uncounted hours and up to $7,000 on the finished product. Some drove souped-up Ford sedans with the tops chopped, i.e., lowered, others built bullet-shaped racers from aircraft tanks, called them "Lakesters" for the dry lakes they race on. The engines gleamed like platinum; for fuel some burned an explosive mixture of methyl alcohol and nitromethane. "Fuel?" snorted an oil-company observer. "It belongs in the class with dynamite...
Thoughtfully, Pressagent Little got more specific about his product: "A friend in Kentucky wrote that he was sending along an old crow which had been around for 125 years. When the expressmen delivered the package, it contained a bottle of an oldtime beverage called Old Crow. Another wag offered to ship me, prepaid, an elderly female relative by marriage . . . However, what I am looking for are authenticated very old crows ... I would deeply appreciate any help from you or your readers." He signed his name and address, but not his occupation...