Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular sense, was in full fashion among pre-Pearl Harbor students. It both pricked and tickled a contented and complacent America in the form of New Dealers, Willkie-ites, isolationists, prophets of the Golden Age of Science, the avant-garde of the "truly American" culture--it was the product of liberal education, too much education but still not enough. War broke most of the bones of those ideals, and now they are socially quite unpresentable. But an untouched and confident corps of students are stepping up to receive their dose of the liberal arts and they will emerge with...
...arms of its desperate allies. By analyzing the forces that are now out of control, the authors of this majority opinion on the Chinese crisis have thrown light on past American mistakes. The gravity of these errors is evidenced by the civil strife in China today, an end product of the American ignorance or defiance of the revolutionary surge that sweeps the backward East to violence...
...nation's magazines gathered last week to take a cool look at their collective product. They expected some selfcriticism, and they got it. It came from Harper's able Editor Frederick Lewis Allen, whose credentials include a quarter of a century with the best U.S. monthlies (Century, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's). At a Manhattan meeting of the National Publishers Association, he spread the blame three ways...
...product of the University School, Shaker Heights, Ohio, he played Freshman squash here in 1942 and captained the Freshman tennis team that year, During the war, Tufts flew dive bombers for the Marine Corps, attaining the rank of first lieutenant. He will graduate in June...
...retail sales reached a record of $96 billion; $105 billion was poured out in wages & salaries, and net corporate profits totaled an estimated $12 billion, some 20% more than 1944's record high. Farmers raised the most profitable crop in history. And the nation's gross national product (goods, services, construction, etc.) soared up into the ionosphere. The total product-an estimated $195 billion-was some 61% more than in any other peacetime year...