Word: productive
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...Feet. Today's Europe, revived by U.S. aid but no longer dependent on it, proudly stands on its own feet. From 1948 to 1955 Europe lifted industrial production by 76% (v. the U.S.'s 33%). West Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Finland and Turkey are producing 50% more than they did before the' war. In Great Britain, whose rate of productivity is generally discussed in gloomy terms, the gross national product is nearly one-third higher than in 1938, real per capita income up at least...
...textile industry, housing developments and hundreds of other state-operated projects. But somehow, through inexperience and the complicated task of coping simultaneously with half a dozen rebellions, they failed to achieve most of their targets. Early this year, after almost a decade of independence, Burma's gross national product was still less than 90% of what it had been under British rule in 1939. Exports of rice, the nation's main source of foreign exchange, were less than two-thirds the prewar average...
Last week's decision of the Supreme Court will not cripple G.M. nor will it knock a dent in Du Pont's business. G.M. will probably keep right on buying from Du Pont so long as the price and product are right. What will hurt is the order to get rid of stock that pays a handsome $126 million annually in dividends. Through Christiana Securities Co., Delaware Realty & Investment Co. and individual stockholdings, the Du Pont family owns 28% of Du Pont itself, and in turn some 18 million shares of General Motors stock worth $756 million...
...25th Reunion in 1982 will be formally presented to the University at that time. In recent years the class gifts have increased steadily from $250,000 from the Class of 1927 to $330,000 from the Class of 1931. Although the class gifts are the product of 25 years of contributions, more than half of each gift is usually raised in the year preceding the 25th Reunion...
...object of all these efforts was the acquisition of a liberal education--an undefined product which has replaced God as a name for what we want but have not got. The pamphlet said that he was being trained to apply general knowledge in particular situations, and President Pusey told him that he was being trained to read books and defend the community of learning against the attacks of antiintellectuals. Unfortunately, nobody told him how or why these things could or should be done. Perhaps that was why, four years later, Rumplestiltskin graduated as puzzled and lost as when...