Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switch came just as many of Latin America's one-product countries reached peaks of discontent. Item: Chile's President Carlos Ibáñez, already badly upset over the low price of his country's all-important copper, last week canceled his scheduled state visit to President Eisenhower after Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton proposed to restore the long-suspended U.S. copper tariff...
...three years ago by the Liberal government of Louis St. Laurent-came out last week with a thoughtful, well-documented prediction on what Canada may be in 1980. The commission's general conclusion: a largely urban, industrialized land of 27 million (v. 17 million today), a gross national product of $80 billion (v. $30 billion), a living standard higher by two-thirds...
...great many people have been expecting a great deal from the John Eyre production of King Lear. The finished product is a fine one, but it may not meet all expectations...
Speaking informally before the Dunster House Forum, he stated that the economy should "run the risk of a future inflationary upturn" in order to halt the far more dangerous problem of depression. The United States economy, with a potential gross national product of about $450 billion can well support a deficit as high as $10 billion, he asserted...
...Seven Seas is the product of Freuchen's long, dark winters in Greenland, when his mind sailed off with the big bergs "as they floated eternally to their doom." Wrote Freuchen: "Little by little it dawned upon me that there is a logical connection between everything that happens in that immense connected body of salty water that covers 71 percent of the surface of the earth." That logic led Explorer Freuchen to learn the lore he put into his book. He studied the science of the tides, waves and winds, learned about history's great sea battles...