Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of partition, Pakistanis were among the few Asians with an assured food supply. Yet today their bread is rationed, and the government has been forced to buy 650,000 tons of wheat from Canada, Russia, India and the U.S. India dismisses the food shortage as the product of bad husbandry, inefficient distribution and a scourge of locusts; the hungry Pakistanis are sure that their richer, more powerful neighbor is intent on starving them...
With six other big record labels last year (Capitol, Coral, Decca, Mercury MGM, RCA Victor), Columbia shared in the pressing of something like $100 million worth of popular music. The product, boosted around the world by disk jockeys, record-players. TV, movies and old-fashioned stem-winding phonographs, is as ubiquitous as the American candy bar, the milkshake and the neon-lighted jukebox. And to ballad buyers, the voice of Rosemary Clooney, 24, has become as familiar as the voice of F.D.R. was to their parents...
...final version, she couldn't have looked prettier to Paramount tycoons if she had been fitted with Lana Turner's head. When Paramount's advertising director saw the finished product in Manhattan he turned to his secretary and bade her take a wire to Producer Irving Asher in Hollywood. "Say this " he instructed. "This girl is Miss Crosby! Don't let anybody teach...
...only beer, and in others spirits, now they are drinking more soft drinks. In some respects I think this is deplorable-but commercially it's wonderful." Schweppes, which does 46% of its business in tonic and the rest in a variety of mixers & soft drinks, thinks Pepsi production will give it a big new product to satisfy Britain's craving for sweeter drinks...
...problem is how to serve up the new product. The public will ultimately decide the issue by deciding whether to buy tickets to see a 3-D film with Polaroid glasses, or to see, without glasses, a three-dimension "illusion." The ideal solution may come from some hard-working engineer who figures out a true stereoscopic system which requires no glasses. This would be Hollywood's best answer to television, just as sound pictures answered the vaudeville stage in the early...