Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was "Twentieth Century Folk Mass," the product of one Fr. Geoffrey Beaumont, which has recently been recorded by the highly competent orchestra of Frank Weir (who is a sort of British Percy Faith). The Anglican service has been provided with music more usually associated with the world of TV variety shows and popular erotic ballads. Fr. Beaumont professes to write in the spirit of the old polyphonists, who wove popular tunes of their day into their masses. Most people in England, he argues, are responsive only to the kind of music purveyed on the mass-consumption mediums. What better...
...college student, and could therefore afford to buy his education on credit, on a sort of learn now, pay later, basis. When speculation arose as to how he had arrived at the magic figure of $100,000, it was rumored that he had divided the annual Gross National Product by the number of Harvard students, and subtracted an odd number of Yalies. At any rate, he refused to tell John Kennedy how to write a Labor Reform Bill, and continued to work on his new book, an expose of the Affluent Society...
...prescription only,* require druggists to keep records of sales. Now the Food and Drug Administration has decided to issue an order, under its present legal powers, to accomplish the same result. As for the Pfeiffer Co., it has resolved to drop amphetamine and, like S.K.F., put a nonstimulating product in its inhalers...
Since then, as the gross national product has grown from $10 billion to $430 billion, prices have increased at a modest rate -an average of 2⅓% a year (see chart-). From 1897 to just before World War I, the average rate of increase each year was 2½% as the nation went through a period of peacetime prosperity. Yet from 1951 to 1956, when the gross national product bounded from $329 billion to $414.7 billion, wholesale prices increased only 1½% over the whole period, a remarkable stability indicating that "normal" inflation need not run away with prosperity...
...jukebox styling. The 1959 models have toned-down colors, trimmed-down fins, less chrome. There are also fewer extra-cost gadgets. Said President Sherwood Egbert of the Outboard Motor Manufacturers' Association: "Instead of bringing out a huge array of new accessories, we have settled down to making our product more reliable, cheaper to operate...