Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "Citizen of a land known of old, newly reborn in our own day as a sovereign state, product of its schools and of the American University in Beirut . . . trained in mathematics, physics and philosophy, scholar and teacher, diplomat and international figure, the wide sweep of your learning, the scope of your perspective and the strategic location of your nation have given you remarkable opportunity for the sympathetic interpretation of the Near East to the West and of the U.S. to Western Asia...
...company for its German owners in 1924, had proved that he knew as much about business as about guns. When he took over, Oerlikon was a machine-tool company with few tools, no liquid assets, a work force of 80, and no orders. Biihrle looked around for a new product, bought the patents on a 20-mm. cannon. Within five years, orders for it were pouring in from China, Finland, Japan and South America. By 1936, Bührle bought up all the stock in the company...
...also a mixture of themes, and unless mixed with perfection some ingredient in the final product is bound to suffer. Such is the case with Tomorrow Is Too Late, which tells a tender love story and juxtaposes it with a bombastic crusade for reform. The story is well told, but the crusade leaves one with a negative impression...
Last week the principle of national origins came under heavy fire from Senate liberals. Up for debate and disposition was an omnibus immigration measure sponsored by Nevada's Pat McCarran. In essence, the bill proposes no real departure in policy. Product of almost three years of study and hearings by the judiciary committees, it is designed to bring thousands of piecemeal immigration statutes and regulations (accumulated since 1798) into one handy, compact code. In the process, it would remove some glaring inequities, e.g., all Asiatic immigrants would be eligible for citizenship, where previously Japanese and certain others were barred...
Kangaroo (20th Century-Fox), the product of a 9,200-mile location trek, is the first Hollywood movie to be made in Australia. The trip paid off with striking Technicolor scenes that Director Lewis Milestone shot around Sydney and rugged Flinders Range: a cattle stampede in a bushfire, a corroboree rain dance, a blistering dust storm and a slashing bullwhip battle between a couple of bushrangers...