Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the official pronouncements, the overall economy seemed in a remarkably healthy state. Employment set a new record in July, and unemployment dropped. The Gross National Product reached an annual rate of $434.5 billion in the second quarter, $5 billion above the first quarter and $23.5 billion above the same period in 1956. Personal income for July rose to a record $345.5 billion, is running 6% ahead of 1956 for the first seven months. Businessmen feel that business will remain good: the majority of 205 industrial concerns polled by the National Industrial Conference Board look for larger dollar value...
...were 43 Republicans and 29 Democrats, including Florida Democrat George Smathers; voting no were 17 Southerners plus anti-anti-Democrat Wayne Morse of Oregon). Indeed, the only remaining question was whether the House of Representatives, having already passed the strong Administration bill (286-126), would approve a Senate product best liked by the Southerners who voted against...
...square miles, reported French Ethnologist Jehan Vellard, who has watched the process in Brazil's Mato Grosso, and now works in Peru. The essential components are dissolved out of the roots or stalks with cold or tepid water, and the solution is concentrated by heating. The finished product is a gooey paste. Natives have no fear of inhaling its vapors or of putting their hands in it, and they judge its strength by the bitterness of a drop, which they nonchalantly taste...
...prison and forced to forfeit his property, the only property seizure of the war crime trials; his directors got sentences ranging from two to twelve years. The head of the Krupp empire went off to Landsberg prison, where he washed dishes, did laundry, worked in a blacksmith shop (one product: a crucifix for the prison chapel), and ordered his days to the sound of the bugle and whistle...
...washroom. This glorious consummation (duly sanctified by a heavenly choir on the sound track) is realized through Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield), a squealing movie siren noted for her "oh-so-kissable lips" and her favorite boast ("All my lovers and I are just friends!"). In getting Jayne's product endorsement in the bag, Rock is nearly bagged by her, almost sandbagged by his fiancee (Betsy Drake), almost pulverized by Jayne's tree-swinging steady frame (Biceps Boy Mickey Hargitay). As "the biggest thing since chlorophyll," Hunter is soon glorified as the agency's president. He is assured...