Word: grams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first quarter of 1953, even bigger spending is expected, and there is every indication that the full year total will be higher than 1952. The quick write-off pro gram set off so much new construction that many businessmen think Eisenhower should make it a permanent policy to keep the U.S. improving its efficiency...
...society where productivity is rising and income with it, where built-in safe guards protect the economy from severe blows, U.S. industry has good reason to believe that its markets will continue to grow with the nation. After the arms pro gram tapers off, there is plenty work to be done rebuilding the nation's outgrown schools, its worn-out highways, and building all manner of projects to supply the growing population's needs...
...missile men is that Von Braun's satellite proposal would fail and would leave the U.S. without the new weapons it needs. These men think that the best way to achieve space flight, whether for military or peaceful reasons, is to continue with the present guided missile pro gram. Every success in this field, they say, will be a step toward space flight...
...After getting a new production line into operation at Danville, Pa. (TIME, Aug. 18), Merck & Co. cut the price of cortisone by 40%, to $9.60 a gram wholesale (three years ago it was $200). Two other producers decided to follow suit...
...company gets it on the market as fast as it can, then lowers the price as fast as production will allow. Within a year after Merck first produced cortisone, and before any other competitors were in the field, Merck had sliced its price from $200 to $50 a gram. It is now down to $16 wholesale...