Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scherer looked back on last week. For when he came up he had a patented process for high-speed manufacture of capsules, made by running strips of gelatin through rotary dies. For filling his capsules, Bob Scherer worked out a machine process that was not only faster but more exact than any of the hand-operated processes he had ever seen. For capital he borrowed $3,000 from his father, raised $2,000 on General Motors stock lent him by his mother-in-law, went to work in an East Side store...
Because his process was fast, cheap, exact, business poured in; rest of his expansion was out of earnings. Gelatin Products spread into an adjoining store, then into an old factory, finally got its new plant this year, complete with bridge tables and lounging chairs in the men's washrooms. Today it supplies 177 U. S. pharmaceutical houses (including such big fellows as Parke, Davis and International Vitamin Corp.), puts up 142 capsuled formulas, is the largest buyer of vitamin compounds in the world. Gelatin Products buys some 60% of its own pharmaceuticals direct, makes a profit on them...
...Soldiers of the glorious Finnish Army: "Peace has been concluded between our country and the Soviet Union, an exact ing peace which has ceded to Russia nearly every battlefield on which you have shed your blood on behalf of every thing we hold dear and sacred...
...inevitability" of class war; advise Socialists to realize the importance of the skilled, salaried worker, to bring themselves up to date on technology. Other blats: the scientific ignorance of statesmen; liberal "unbias"; any front against fascism which does not take full cognizance of science; economics as an "exact" science; "humane or gentlemanly" knowledge as against "useful or scientific" knowledge...
...Journalist H. N. Brailsford asked in the London News why all this discrimination in favor of the Indies' natives. "Let us not underestimate their gain. It comes to nearly a halfpenny for each of them through every week of the year - two fifths of a penny to be exact...