Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman who had attacks of gout in the spring or fall were found to be sensitive to pollens, as well as to certain foods. Harkavy brought on attacks by injecting the pollens. When they were immunized against the pollens, and avoided the troubling foods, two of the patients were free of gout. The classical remedy-colchicine-gives relief from pain. But the trick is to find out what the victim is allergic to, says Harkavy. It might be the grapes of the rich man's champagne or his rare roast beef; it might be the poor...
...than some of the younger coaches present ever knew. He originated such things as the end-around play, the fake kickoff and the tackling dummy-and at 86, is still going strong as coach at Susquehanna University. Said Stagg at a National Collegiate Athletic Association rules committee meeting, where free substitution was the main topic...
...first big postwar coming-out party, the debut of the 1949 Chevrolet and Pontiac, General Motors Corp. had spent a million dollars. The world's biggest automaker had bundled threescore U.S. automotive editors (and plenty of potables) aboard its Astra Domed, diesel-drawn "Train of Tomorrow," for a free ride from Detroit to New York. It would pick up the tab for a three-day whirl of luncheons, receptions and banquets for 5,000 people. All over the U.S., G.M. dealers were also cutting capers; Omaha Chevrolet dealers sent a flagpole sitter aloft for nine days...
...said it was not concerned with pricing methods, but only with possible conspiracies to fix prices. Individual businessmen, it said, are free to compute their prices by using basing points, absorbing freight charges, or any other way they please, provided they do not use the system to conspire to fix prices illegally...
...short, when FTC last year was plumping for f.o.b. pricing, it was not trying to lay down a law; it was merely pointing out the safest way to avoid suspicion. But, warned FTC: "No pricing formula ... is automatically free from or . . . subject to a charge of conspiracy...