Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While not necessarily an advocate of "Republican prosperity" as opposed to "Democratic prosperity," I still must beg to differ with your economic views as propounded in your editorial of September 28. The writer, in pointing out the very true fact that the National Income or Gross National Product is made larger through debt financing, uses this fact to imply that: 1) our prosperity is a mirage; 2) the Republicans are to blame for the debt; and 3) that the Republicans are guilty of deceit in saying that this is an era of unmatched economic well-being. With these implications...
...story begins in Dogpatch, where residents are threatened with eviction from their ancestral homes to make way for a nuclear testing ground. Dogpatchers, led by Mammy Yokum, decide to market their own alcoholic distillate, which will make them indispensable to the nation. Their product becomes a security matter and involves the mercenary interests of General Bullmoose. Only Mammy's triple whammy and a herd of relatives save Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae from disastrous marriages and actually end an egregiously complicated story...
...righteous" day people, as Shepherd calls them, closed ranks: WOR declared Shepherd "noncommercial" and sacked him, thus setting off a clangor of protest heard halfway across the land. Next day the chain gave him a week's reprieve. Then Shepherd tried a hard-sell on the first commercial product that popped into mind, Sweetheart Soap (which had never been a WOR sponsor). He was abruptly cut off the air and fired again. Announced WOR: "We cannot permit such poor judgment to continue uncontrolled." Just as abruptly, WOR ate its words. Sweetheart Soap rewarded Shepherd's free plug...
...this only as "a trick of Satan to delude the public." In the noisy bottling house, as the cans and bottles rattled and banged through a maze of conveyor belts, a Baptist voice was heard above the din: "This canning process shows the genius of man to produce a product, and the cleverness of Satan to deceive our hearts and minds...
...will be the executive vice president and general manager. He will bring with him eight fully designed tractors, four years of research and development, and a huge potential for road equipment in the federal highway program. Said one Case officer: "We bought design, redesign, tooling, testing, experience, and a product in production. It probably would have taken four years or longer to develop such a line, and cost us $10 million to $12 million." Said Rojtman: "Case has been slipping in the last few years, but we will reverse that. The merger will put Case right...