Word: production
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India, plain people learned the practical meaning of devaluation when a well-known dollar product, Ovaltine, shot up from 3½rupees to 5 in the bazaars...
Important Product. At Father O'Hara's first post in Portland, Ore. it became clear that he liked to plow new ground in the Lordls vineyard. In 1913, when such causes were far from popular, he took the lead in pushing a minimum wage law through the Oregon legislature- one of the first com pulsory wage laws in the U.S. But perhaps his dearest concern of all, as both priest and bishop, is in developing his church in rural areas...
...most important product in rural America is children-not wheat or corn or flax ... The object of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, among other things, is to make the rural pastor conscious of the importance of his profession and of its dignity ... The Church is the biggest single factor in building up rural communities...
...like a girl to catch the public's eye. Actually, with the buyers' market making the going tougher than before, the advertising business has begun to realize that a pretty girl can only lead the customer to the store counter; she cannot make him buy. Only the product itself can do that. The new emphasis in advertising, particularly for such goods as synthetics, electronic devices and new drugs, is on telling an informative story of quality...
...When the British returned in 1944, so did Weller; like many another correspondent, he developed a deep affection for the country. The Crack in the Column, an admirably objective novel beginning in the days of the Nazi occupation and ending with the outbreak of civil war, is the product of George Weller's fondness for Greece and its hard-pressed people...