Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penicillin, the first of the antibiotic wonder drugs, is now a drug on the market. In the past few months, the manufacturer's price has been cut in half to less than 2? per 100,000 units in bulk. The case of penicillin was a fine example of how a free and competitive market can be a wonder drug of its own, by forcing prices down and passing on savings to the consumer...
...gift is ruled legal, the case will be a "clarification" of a corporation's right to underwrite independent higher education. Currently the bulk of corporation gifts to the University are ear-marked for specific purposes--mainly scientific research...
...Cape Town's Table Mountain, that looks toward the point where the royal blue waters of the Indian Ocean merge into the Atlantic, a huge and stately house rears its white bulk among acres of hydrangeas. The house is Groote Schuur (Great Barn); once it belonged to famed Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes; Rudyard Kipling used to winter there. Past its well-stocked deer park one morning last week sped a shiny. Packard sedan, followed by a Ford. Shortly after 11 a.m., the Packard drew up outside South Africa's Parliament House in Cape Town six miles away...
...this, Maytag's Rocky Mountain distributors made deals to buy bulk lots from big frozen-food wholesalers (including such top brands as Birds Eye, Snow Crop, Pictsweet, etc.), then passed the goods on to freezer buyers without additional markups. Explained Maytag's Santa Fe Manager John McCauley: "We're not interested in making money on food but in selling freezers." For buyers, it meant some notable savings: 17? for frozen peas v. 23? in Santa Fe chain stores, 32? for Brussels sprouts v. 41?, 68? for salmon fillets...
...widely diversified grants totaling $22,331,000. Some of them betrayed the inevitable influence of intellectual do-gooders, e.g., a $75,000 project to study "the basic resemblances and differences . . . among the principal patterns of thought and life that are now important in the human community." But the bulk of the money went for more practical projects. The main grants...