Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offering generous tax exemptions to new investors, Operation Bootstrap attracted 169 new plants in the first five years (v. 19 in the previous five years), is now bringing in ten a month. To arguments that Puerto Rico owes its success to its position as a low-wage part of the U.S. customs area and to the free movement of goods between the island and the U.S., Moscoso replied: "Puerto Rico had this same kind of economic relationship with the U.S. from 1917 to 1940−and yet nothing much happened...
...India's Minocher Masani pointed to the success of India's Forum of Free Enterprise−a voluntary association of enlightened businessmen to tell the local people how responsible, creative capitalism works in other countries...
...TIME, July 8). One major surprise: Ford will discontinue its famed two-seater Thunderbird, replace it with the long-planned four-seater model that is longer (113 in. wheelbase v. 102 in. wheelbase). but just as low and rakish. While the small T-bird has been a big success, with sales of 53,000 cars since 1954 (five times as many as Chevrolet's sporty Corvette), Ford thinks that the U.S. two-seater market is limited. Now it will shoot for broader fields in the growing family small-car market...
...Switzerland since Suez, and would probably force stockholders to pay French taxes of up to 65% on liquidation proceeds. As matters stand, the company has an estimated $280 million in hand to devote to its projects, but with almost three times that amount tied up outside France, the success of its new role depends very much on whether it can retrieve the value of its frozen and nationalized assets...
...Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's spoof of Manhattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock, Jayne Mansfield as herself (TIME...