Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson under wraps until some of the furor about his budget died down. But friends of the Air Force stirred up such a row that the Senate Appropriations Committee called Wilson well ahead of schedule last week to give him his big chance to sell his product...
...Isle of Man in the Irish Sea was worried last week about its most famous product: high-rumped, tailless Manx cats. They are getting so scarce that a special organization, the Isle of Man Manx Cat Association, has been formed to foster their breeding...
...John C. Garand, 65, inventor of the Army's basic M-1 (Garand) rifle, was given, as a farewell trophy, the millionth M-1 which was made during World War II (over 4,000,000 have been made for the Army). Said Gunsmith Garand, looking at his famous product: "I've never felt bad about designing the rifle even though its only real use is in war. If it were used by an aggressor nation, then I'd be sorry...
...plan from his own store of ideas, and skillfully combining the ideas of others, then nursed it through a highly critical Faculty with no crippling changes. The Bender Plan, an attempt to inject the educational intimacy of the past into the expanded College of today, is equally the product of his initiative and persistence...
...Tested on humans for the first time, trifluoroethyl vinyl ether turned out to be a promising new anesthetic. Product of 15 years research by Dr. John C. Krantz Jr., Johns Hopkins pharmacology professor, the fluorinated ether puts a patient to sleep in 27 seconds (a standard ether takes up to five minutes), has an agreeable odor and a high boiling point that should make it useful in warm climates. Biggest advantage: not readily combustible, it will reduce the danger of disastrous operating-room explosions...