Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Facts have taken on a sharp and immediate importance; more people need more facts today than ever before in history. To help meet that need, TIME has developed an active and widespread newsgathering organization, as well as the means for speedy distribution of the finished product to English-speaking people all over the world. What the editors of TIME consider more important than the physical organization, however, is their policy of not standing between the facts and the reader. "To keep men well-informed-that, first and last, is the only ax this magazine has to grind," said TIME...
...article by former Saturday Evening Post editorial writer Garet Garrett is not so trite, but in the attempt to prove that American intrusion into European affairs is responsible for that continent's present impotency, the author is forced into the extraordinary argument that Russia's power is simply a product of American interference as well...
...base of the Islands' economy is "the sugar and the pineapple industries, the tournist business, and government defense activities," David said. He added that there was room for expansion, "especially in the by-product areas." He cited the Macadamia nut industry, Hawaiian flowers, and technical improvements in the use of sugar products like bagasse and molasses as examples of the "new and expanding industries...
Most of the jibes at Skinner result from his experimentation with animals. He is trying to find out what shapes human behavior by observing similar behavior in his animals. As a by-product of this experimentation he has found new and better ways to train animals. Regrettably, these by-products are enlarged out of proportion to their importance. "The press," Skinner complains "is always looking for the sensational. As a result they get the piddling instead of the important." Magazines are continually looking for features showing Skinner training pigeons to play ping-pong or count or bang out tunes...
...magnetic material, as in a tape recorder. When used in the home, the film will catch baby's first coos and gurgles as well as his early toddlings. The sound can be erased and changed for each showing of the film. A salesman exhibiting his company's product can adapt his canned spiel to fit the weak spots of the individual customer...