Word: ely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remembered as the year that voracious sports columnists called for President Pusey's, Tom Bolles', and John Yovicsin's blood after the 54 to 0 loss against Yale. The eleven's 3 and 5 record has been worse in recent years, but an eight touchdown loss to the Eli effectively ruins any season. Few Harvard fans will ever remember without a shudder the spectre of Dick Winterbauer cocking his arm in the direction of the Crimson goal line for one of his numerous touchdown passes. It must be remembered, however, that the game found the varsity at its lowest physical...
...vaccine. Exhorted by the U.S. Public Health Service to produce as fast as they could, the companies turned out more than 205 million doses of vac cine through 1957. sold 103.5 million doses to the Government for distribution to an eager public. Last week five of the companies -Eli Lilly & Co.. Allied Laboratories Inc.. American Home Products Corp.. Merck & Co.. Inc. and Parke. Davis & Co. -were indicted in a Trenton (N.J.) federal court on antitrust charges that they had criminally conspired to fix prices, submit uniform prices in sales to the Government...
...drug companies angrily denied the charges. Prices of vaccine, they noted, had been cut five times, to a little over half the initial price. "It would be a strange conspiracy," said Eli Lilly's President Eugene N. Beesley, "that had as its purpose repeated decreases in prices -never an increase.'' Lilly's average profit, said Beesley, was only 6¼? per dose, against which the company took the gamble of producing vaccine without assurance of a market. Currently, Lilly has an inventory of 24,043,000 doses. Since demand has fallen way off, Lilly may have...
...battered to put up much of a fight against the speedy Eli attackmen, the defense permitted men to break free in front of the goal during the whole game. Crimson clearing was almost non-existent, a sharp contrast to Yale's accurate clearing, which quickly moved the ball up to a midfielder on the center-line...
...contest turned into a rout after a goal by Lamont and two by Pyle had made the score 14 to 9 at 8:37 of the period. Allen shook loose for three of the last four Eli goals, the final one off Chris Stone, who replaced MacKinnon when he was slashed on the ankle...