Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights bill was, after all, the product of national demand in the light of the Negro revolution of 1963 and '64. Republican platforms and declarations of principle have long been strong for civil rights. In the House of Representatives, Republican Leader Charles Halleck had gone down the line for the bill, and 138 out of 172 voting Republicans approved it. In the Senate, G.O.P. Leader Dirksen was the main architect of amending the bill into its final form, and Barry was one of a mere six Republican Senators who finally voted against...
...shining exception to the rule that family-owned companies no longer achieve great growth is S. C. Johnson & Son, the household-wax titan from Racine, Wis. In an industry where Pride is a product and Pledge outsells competing furniture polishes 2 to 1, Johnson has cleaned up millions. Yet it has never had to sell a share to the public, never made an acquisition in its progress to the top floor of the $200 million-a-year wax and polish business...
...Entrepreneurs. Spain's economists, led by liberal Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres, 50, intend to keep statistics climbing with a four-year development plan. Under it, production and expansion have been carefully timetabled: $15 billion in public and private investment will be added to Spain's economy, and the gross national product, now $13 billion, is expected to rise...
...neither defused the boom of Africa's richest nation nor diminished its role as a prime salesman to the world. Since the boy cott began four years ago, British and U.S. investment alone in South Africa has risen 50% to $3.7 billion, South Africa's gross national product has in creased 20% to $8.6 billion, and the Rand Daily Mail's stock market index has nearly quadrupled. With exports of products as varied as wheat and mining machinery running at a record $1.5 billion rate, South Africa boasts an inter national payments surplus of $200 mil lion...
Leon Uris' new novel is the predictable end product of an interior monologue just like that. And it must be conceded that Uris, who once publicly pronounced himself "the most outstanding U.S. writer of today," has succeeded astonishingly in his aim: into this big bad book he has packed away every conceivable stock figure, from the nice Russian officer (Igor) trapped by the system, to the beautiful whore (Hilde) who reforms and then softens the hard heart of the dashing American pilot (Scott, what else...