Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first quarter of 1965, the gross national product was up by $14.5 billion over the last quarter of 1964. This was one of the biggest quarterly gains in U.S. history, and was in line with Ackley's earlier estimate of a record G.N.P. of $660 billion...
...view of Manhattan's Martin R. Gainsbrugh, chief economist and vice president of the National Industrial Conference Board, the ball was not about to be dropped. Predictions of a $660 billion gross national product, he said, "may, in the light of the first quarter and rising investment plans, prove to be too low. Conceivably, it may be as high as $670 or $675 billion...
...both Rovere and Novak, from their different perspectives, suggest that it was no such thing. For them, the San Francisco convention was a plausible, if unusual, product of the political market mechanism, the result of varying proportions of stupidity and astute planning plus a few unpredictable contingencies. Despite Goldwater's blunders and speech writers, despite all the primary results, the Arizonian ambled downhill to the nomination after Rockefeller's remarriage. It was Clifton White's roundup of 300 solidly Goldwater delegates (with 655 needed to nominate) plus the Goldwater victory (and 86 votes) in California that corralled the convention...
...give the movie a documentary look by editing in footage of Harlem streets and faces. Exhibit A in her social expose is the Royal Pythons, a perversion of "Our Gang" spawned by the poolrooms and tenements of Harlem. Their aspiring leader, 14-year-old Duke Custis, represents the final product of all this deprivation. The message in his story is clear: that the vicious cycle of Harlem life forces people to twist their human potential into grotesque and destructive channels...
Organized into five product groups composed of 30 different companies, Textron sells such diverse items as golf carts, gas meters, roosters, engines for the Agena rocket, mailboxes, a rocket harness that jet-propels the human body, and the helicopters being used in Viet Nam. Last week Textron's hustling Bell Aerospace division, the leading producer of U.S. helicopters, won a record foreign order for 406 helicopters for the West German air force. The award, which will bring in about $65 million for Textron ($65 million more will go to West German firms working on contract), was especially satisfying because...