Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time maybe, possibly, potentially, hopefully the result will be better. Better, richer than goldfish swallowing and flapping, better than the abortive product of the energetic twenties. This time, hopefully, there will be a meaning to uniqueness, a purpose to novelty. There is hope yet in the colleges, where, in those few spirits, the blood runs rich and the mind sharp...
Made in U.S.A. Though foundations are as old as the Pharaohs, the one that Heald runs is as much an American product as the model T. Plato may have endowed his academy, and Benjamin Franklin may have left funds for the needy married apprentices of Boston and Philadelphia, but it was not until the formation of the Peabody Education Fund in 1867 that the modern foundation really emerged. By that time philanthropy was taking up a whole new role: not charity alone, but the advancement of knowledge...
...years Carnation Milk advertised that its product came from contented cows. Last week Chas, Pfizer & Co. disclosed that it has found a way to make all farm animals contented by adding tranquilizers to their feed. Results: steers fed tranquilizers gained weight 12% faster than steers left to worry about life; lambs gained weight up to 28% faster. Pfizer is not yet ready to say that tranquilizers should be generally used by cattle raisers. But tests so far show improved quality with no bad effects...
...enemy, for instance, would use a clean bomb to obliterate Washington when the fallout of a dirty one might kill, in addition, most of the inhabitants of Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia and New York. "The fight for the clean bomb"-a phrase now current in atomic discussion-is not a product of hard-headed military thinking. It is likely that more effort is being invested in designing bombs that create a maximum amount of short-lived radioactivity. Such weapons might depopulate whole countries without keeping invaders from living in the silent houses after a month...
...product of the Harvard Business School, McNamara first worked for Price, Waterhouse & Co., became an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard, then joined the Army Air Forces where he was a lieutenant colonel in charge of statistical control at Wright-Patterson field when Ford hired him in 1946 to work in the financial analysis office, promoted him to comptroller...