Word: ciba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...century is mostly a story of dreams richly come true. The seed the Funk brothers developed yields 150 to 160 bushels of corn an acre. The Funk Prairie Home, once center of a 25,000-acre farm, is now a museum, and the seed company is a division of Ciba-Geigy. Land that McNulta bought for $150 an acre now hovers around $4,000 an acre, too much for anyone ever to start out farming there now, but not a bad price for to day's farmer/investor to use as a tax write-off. The Osage orange hedges, planted...
Also under FDA attack are several drugs used against high blood pressure and blood clotting, some diuretics and products containing synthetic hormones. Among the odds and ends that the FDA wants to see no more: Winthrop's Alevaire, for asthma; CIBA's Bradosol throat lozenges; Parke-Davis' Phemerol. a skin antiseptic; and Lever Bros.' Pepsodent Antiseptic Mouthwash...