Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French National Assembly voted, 414 to 177, over Communist opposition, to allot 743 billion francs ($2,115,000,000) to military expenditure in 1951. NATO officials calculated that, with other rearmament expenditures not shown in the budget, France would spend $2,600,000,000 (11% of the gross national product) on defense. A¶fter sitting on its hands for two months, Italy's Senate passed a new defense bill (TIME, March 19) to spend an additional 250 billion lire ($400 million) to modernize the nation's armed forces, bring them up to treaty strength. Communists and their...
...commercial, 3) noisy commercials, especially those that are sharply different in mood from the program, 4) overworked techniques, which have made viewers indifferent to stars whirling into focus to spell out a brand name; beer being poured into glasses; animated figures jumping on to and off of product labels; celebrities plugging hair tints and watches...
...SIKORSKY in ten years has mushroomed from a small experimental shop, working on a handmade product, to a 365,000-sq. ft. plant employing 2,000 people. Its S-51 four-place helicopter has so proved itself in Korea (where it has evacuated 2,993 wounded men) that it now has more than $100 million in military orders. Sikorsky is now concentrating on its bigger (ten-place) S-55, and a secret ship-based helicopter believed to be the biggest ever built...
...feature of the Taft position: this week he told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the armed forces should be cut by 500,000 men and the mobilization budget reduced by $20 billion. Said he: "I don't believe the Government can take a third of the national product without inflation, loss of morale, resentment, labor trouble and the severest type of controls...
...Premier Joseph ("Petit Père") Pholien, just back from the U.S. (TIME, April 16). Two nights later, at another dinner, Pholien replied. This time Ambassador Murphy was in the audience. Pholien said that Belgium's defense spending "would amount to 5.5%, not 5%, of its national product." He added that it is often misleading to compare defense expenditures of nations in terms of percentages of gross national product...