Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funnier. The most professional of Leonard Silurian's various New Faces, it looks trim and moves fast. It is full of sophisticated ideas to be sung or spoken; it exhibits a bunch of likable new faces, a few of which should catch the spotlight more & more. But the product is not quite up to the packaging. For all its expensive gloss, its Raoul Pene du Bois sets and John Murray Anderson staging, it never really bankrolls 'em in the aisles...
...last week that the economy is still growing. In the first quarter, it reported, the total output of goods and services was at an annual rate of $339.5 billion, up $11.7 billion from the full year 1951 and a new record. In the past, increases in the gross national product have been due in some measure to price rises, but this time, said Commerce, with prices stable, the jump resulted almost entirely from greater output and bigger incomes...
...flavor to their own blends. Unlike other Scotch distillers, Glenlivet's owner, 56-year-old Captain William Henry Smith Grant, a kilted, decorated veteran of two wars,† never made a blend in his life, and neither did his distilling forebears-father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Their only product was, and still is, pure malt whisky, slowly distilled from barley in old-fashioned pot stills...
Fowler, 43, Virginia-born, a product of Yale Law School and a seasoned lawyer for New Deal and Fair Deal agencies, will head both DPA and NPA (which have been arms of ODM). "A single production head," explained Truman, "now promises to be the most effective means of overall coordination of mobilization production." Fowler believes the job is only half done; industrial expansion, arms output and stockpiling have still a tough way to go. He may not be around to see the program through its three-year buildup, but he foresees another need after the buildup is in hand. Then...
...Pittsburgh baker, Reinhold got into the ice-cream business as a boy, chopped ice from a nearby river to freeze his product, and delivered it by wheelbarrow to local drugstores. He built a sizable Pittsburgh business, moved to Florida, and, in 1931, took over the management of Foremost. By expanding into new markets, he boosted sales 50-fold (to $53 million in 1951), has more than doubled Foremost's net (to $1,508,493) in the past five years alone...