Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pots of Pasta. Like the Jeep, Libbey-Owens-Ford glass and Toledo Scales, Mike Di Salle is a made-in-Toledo product. He was born in a tenement in Manhattan's Little Italy, but when he was three his parents, Anthony and Assunda, moved to Toledo. In those days, the Di Salle family (expanded by three more sons and three daughters after Mike) lived the skimpy life of a factory worker's family. Papa Di Salle made wine in the cellar, fixed the kids' shoes and cut their hair; mama perspired over steaming washtub-size pots...
...Planes. General Controls, which ranks close to Minneapolis-Honeywell Co. in volume of heating and refrigeration controls, has expanded into the manufacture of units for rockets and guided missiles. During World War II nearly every U.S. plane carried at least one General Controls product...
...Marcello Muccini is one of Italy's best living artists, but until last week he never had a one-man show. The reason is that Muccini paints so little. A lean, troubled product of the same slum that produced his friend and fellow painter Vespignani (TIME, Jan. 29), Muccini often loafs for months on end. When he does work, as last week's exhibition proved, he puts his heart...
...Anything making animals grow faster is almost certain to reduce their price." With this consumer-conscious observation, President Dwight Joyce of Cleveland's Glidden Co. last week began promoting a new product to make animals grow faster-and, possibly, to reduce the price of food. The product: "ABC and X" animal feed, which contains waste fish products and secret antibiotic drugs that help animals to get more nourishment from their food. The new feed, said Joyce, will make turkeys grow bigger, speed up the growth of chickens 5% to 20%, pigs 20% (until they reach...
Quick Change. Gerard Swope had centralized G.E. manufacturing. Charlie Wilson, certain that times were changing, set out to decentralize G.E.'s authority-and to make the planning, manufacture and sales of every product an integrated operation. World War II suddenly switched him from this huge job to a huger one-making G.E. into a war industry. And in the middle of that, Franklin Roosevelt asked him to come to Washington to work the bugs...