Word: production
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond that, Khrushchev said often and emphatically that he wanted to reduce the percentage of the Soviet gross national product now devoted to military projects (about 25%, as compared to about 10% in the U.S.) and convert it to consumer production. The U.S. officials pictured Khrushchev's frequent public claims about soon catching up with the U.S. in industrial and agricultural production as mere window dressing. In his more private moments, Khrushchev was portrayed as realizing that any such parity will be a long time in coming, can only be achieved by cutting down on military projects in favor...
...booth, his face contorted with mental effort, his lips muttering a kind of private stream-of-consciousness through which he tried to find the answers to Twenty One's difficult questions. Bearer of a distinguished name, Charles Van Doren (TIME cover, Feb. n, 1957) had seemed the finest product of American education, character, family background and native intelligence. Could it be that all or much of that picture had been sham? That was the most disturbing question raised by last week's Washington hearings on the scandal of the television quiz shows...
Early Flop. Patty's polish, poise and professional stagecraft are the product of three brief years of TV and movies. "Patty," says her overawed mother, "was always adept at dressing up and pretending," but she never thought about acting until she was all of six years old. Her older brother Raymond (then 13) was appearing in occasional television shows, and Patty badgered Ray's agent into giving her an audition. The inflections she learned on the Manhattan streets where she grew up held her back for a few months. But before long she was doing TV commercials...
These advances have come at the expense of fast growth. For the next seven years Nove sees annual rises of 4% in Soviet agriculture, 6% in national income, 7% to 8% in industrial production. Though still impressive, these totals are nowhere near enough to equal the U.S. in gross national product...
...also claimed that the new Confidential magazine is a literary product quite different from the older version, which was involved in a suit for libel. "We're a public service and public conscience magazine now," Steirman said...