Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gross national product in the first quarter increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $465 billion, up from $453 billion in the fourth quarter last year, the President's Council of Economic Advisers reported in a preliminary estimate...
...case, the editorial raises for consideration several more basic questions which have been concerning our committee. The decision to withdraw financial support from lacrosse was a product of much deliberation by the Administration and the HAA; it can be taken both as an indication of the need for economy, and of the Administration's reluctant willingness to take drastic steps in the area. In fact, the growing feeling in the Ivy group that athletics must be re-evaluated has led the Student Council committee to concern itself at length with the basic assumptions, aims and purposes of athletics: intercollegiate, intramurals...
...battleship USS Tennessee. While he was on that ship, a kamikaze pilot provided him with his closest brush with death, narrowly missing him, Admiral Deyo, and Captain Heffernan on the suicidal plunge. After visiting the Phillipines, Morison planned to participate in the long-awaited Kyushu landing in October; the product of other Harvard men--the atomic bomb--ended that...
...these more recent works have had the misfortune to follow that poverty of expression which this current exhibition reveals, and all of them are the product of temperaments akin to those of their predecessors...
...prospective increase in U.S. production in the 1960s is almost as much as the combined current production of Europe's two fastest-growing industrial powers, the Soviet Union and West Germany. In 1960 the effect of increasing defense efforts plus rising capital investment will boost gross national product from $475 billion to an even $500 billion. By 1970, ten years later, U.S. production will have soared to $750 billion for the greatest growth in any decade in U.S. history. To U.S. consumers, the growth will mean $355 billion available in disposable income to spend on goods and services...