Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Women's magazine editors are usually pleased when their product appeals to large audiences. Their advertising directors, on the other hand, like to argue that the space they sell is surrounded by editorial copy that appeals to a very select crew. In competing with TV's undiscriminating mass appeal, they lean hard on their publication's selectivity...
Phil said he thought the best by-product of the show was the Camaraderie that has developed during the five weeks of rehearsals. "Everyone has been working so hard that I couldn't believe it when no one showed up the day after Thanksgiving," he added. "I cried...
...CENTER: Malcolm Walker, 21, Rice, 6 ft. 4 in., 245 Ibs. A product of Texas high school football, Walker is so tough and talented that the scouts reckon he could make it either as center or linebacker, but most favor him for the offensive assignment because "he blocks real well with his head...
...chemists-like their colleagues throughout the chemical industry-never stop asking questions: How can electricity be transmitted without causing heat, what makes plants flower when and how they do, what are some new commercial possibilities of magnetism? Along the way, the perpetual search produces so many new products and processes that Du Pont is hard-pressed to find names for all of them, has called upon a computer to assemble 153,000 possible two-and three-syllable "nonsense" words that mean nothing in English. A while ago the company gave one product a name that means enema in Swedish...
Shoes for Orphans. Copeland has even higher hopes for Corfam. The product of 30 years of research and $30 million, it is different from any previous synthetic-the first leather substitute that is truly waterproof, shape-retaining, scuff-resistant, porous and long-lasting. Since leather is a remarkably complex material much like human skin, creating the substitute has taken longer and cost more than Du Pont expected when it set out on its search. Corfam is a complicated combination of several synthetics with seemingly opposite properties: tight on the outside, loose on the inside and porous throughout...