Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Triple Play. Now Mathieson supplies raw materials for synthetic fibers and for auto antifreeze. Mathieson is also one of the top dry-ice producers and a leader among U.S. fertilizer makers. Its latest product is hydrazine, a secret ingredient of rocket fuels...
Liberated Genie. In a way, Mussolini set the stage for Italy's movie renaissance by building Cinecitta and granting state subsidies. But he also dictated the propaganda trash which was the industry's main prewar product. After liberation, Italy's democratic government resumed the subsidies. But Italy's able young film boss, Under Secretary of State Giulio Andreotti, 33, onetime journalist and underground fighter, wisely kept hands off the product. Result: such imaginative directors as Rossellini and Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica had free play...
Skinny budgets and antiquated equipment forced them to use natural lighting and to press amateurs into service as actors. These techniques, born of economic necessity, gave their films a fresh, simple quality that made Hollywood's chrome-edged product seem brassier than ever. They took their themes from the world around them: war, occupation, poverty, misery and human courage. Sex was merely incidental to such plots, but since it was handled in the casual manner in which Italians regard sex, it startled U.S. audiences, accustomed to the sniggering censorship of the Breen office...
...nations are as dependent on a single product as Switzerland is upon its world-famed watches. The manufacture of precision timepieces employs 10% of its labor force, accounts for 22% of the nation's total exports. The U.S. takes more than half of this total, thus provides Switzerland with dollars that help make her economy the soundest in Europe. Last week the usually complacent Swiss watchmakers were wound up tight as an over-stressed mainspring. The U.S. Tariff Commission had reportedly recommended to Harry Truman that duties on Swiss watch movements be raised. This would drastically cut Swiss exports...
...these electronic wonders are the product of Boston's Raytheon Manufacturing Co., a kind of Buck Rogers, Inc. A prewar pygmy whose sales never topped $5,000,000, Raytheon grew into a giant during World War II, when it made more than half of all the search radar used by the Allies, and its sales hit a peak of $178 million. (Its stock had an even more fantastic rise, shot from 50? in 1940 to a high of $90 in 1945.) But at war's end, Raytheon ran into the red as its sales tumbled to around...