Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soapmaker Neil McElroy's sudsy salary apparently left a dash of P. & G.'s product in your eye when it came to citing the firm's net sales in '56 at such a paltry low-Tide million plus figure. I think it should...
...Kukla, Fran & Ollie, TV's second oldest network show (after Kraft TV Theater) went dark after a ten-year run, and all earlier sounds became mere whimpers. A New Jersey woman wrote Sponsor Gordon Baking Co.: "We do not intend to buy any more of your product." A Chicago fan complained: "I bought my TV set on your account, and now I'm stuck with the damn thing." More than one mother complained that she would miss cleaning the smudges her children made on the TV screen when they kissed the Kuklapolitans good night. To the chief programmer...
...Ponti is perhaps the world's top designer, and the busiest. He put up his own pavilion to display a living room, kitchen, bedroom and bath in which every object is a product of his own imagination. The pavilion walls are of translucent vitreous cement in various colors. Inside are glass bookcases in which the books seem to float on air, tables whose color varies with the angle of view, an austere double bed. Asked to explain some of the items, blocky, bristly Ponti bubblingly obliged...
Industrial production and manufacturers' new orders have slipped during the year. The strong upward movement of business investment, which has pushed up the economy since the end of 1954, appears to be slowing; expenditures for new plants and equipment this year are rising at a slower rate. Home construction is dillydallying along at lower levels, and economists foresee no strong upturn in the near future. While the dollar growth in gross national product sets new peaks each quarter, inflation now accounts for more than half of each advance. Much of the increase in personal income, which continues...
After ten years of planning and $250 million for tooling, Ford Motor Co. put its long-awaited Edsel on display this week. The first new "Big Three" car since Ford brought out the Mercury in 1938 is a recognizable Ford product without radical jetlike fins or bomb-shaped bumpers. Like Ford and Mercury, it presents a squarish appearance with a flat rear deck, horizontal taillights that flare up and out, an oval, uncluttered grille reminiscent of the elegant Cord of the '30s. Under its hood is a burly engine turning up 303 h.p. in the less expensive models...