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...Theiler, 52, of the Rockefeller Foundation, won the 1951 Nobel Prize in medicine: a gold medal and $32,357. Born in South Africa, Dr. Theiler has lived 29 years in the U.S. Of the award he said: "It looks as though yellow jack got me the jackpot...
...global gamble for oil, everyone knows that U.S. companies are cashing in the biggest jackpot in their history. But few realize the staggering size of the bets required to back up a winning hand. Last week Gulf Oil Corp., fifth biggest in the industry, provided a prime example. It announced that it will spend another $200 million to expand its refining and manufacturing operations, bringing its total expansion since war's end to $1 billion, one-twelfth of the whole U.S. industry's postwar investments. With such huge costs for hunting and producing oil, not even the giants...
...became a multimillionaire, with interests in big plantations in Morocco, a fine mansion in Paris. But Magnate Walter never forgot how he hit his first jackpot. In 1938, he decided to set up his special scholarships so that other boys might learn to get around and keep their eyes open. Since then, he has sent 950 boys on journeys of adventure - always with just enough money to get far away from home...
Scarce and expensive drugs are the potential jackpot payoffs of pharmaceutical chemistry. Right now one of the most valuable is the steroid hormone, cortisone, which sells at wholesale for $23 a gram. Reason: under present commercial methods, it takes the bile from 1,000 tons of cattle to make a month's supply of cortisone for a single arthritis patient...
...makes it tough for us and sometimes leaves televiewers bug-eyed." But sponsors' enthusiasm for filmed commercials has resulted in an $8,000,000-a-year business for Manhattan alone. More than, 300 filmmakers, many of them operating on shoestrings, are scrambling for a share of the new jackpot...