Word: pint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direct, life-saving transfusions to victims of burns and injuries, while pharmaceutical companies have been purchasing increasing quantities for use in the production of vaccines and serums. This growing demand has created a thriving business for hundreds of unlicensed private laboratories, which buy plasma for $5 and up per pint, sell it for at least a 100% profit. But it has also led to a serious public-health problem, and last week the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council proposed strict new rules to police the plasma plants...
Then last May catastrophe struck. One of the worst earthquakes in history annihilated several Peruvian villages and towns, killing 50,000 people and leaving other thousands homeless. Aid poured in from sympathetic countries, among them France, Spain and Yugoslavia. Cuba's Fidel Castro flamboyantly donated a pint of his blood. Last week Pat Nixon flew south for a two-day visit to the disaster areas, the first such foreign mission ever undertaken by a First Lady. Air Force One, which carried her there, was piled high with gifts for the Peruvians. A second plane was even more loaded...
...shilling bus fare and a shilling telephone call, and we would have to pay for them out of a 10-shilling pound," he declared. In Leicester, he evoked the specter of "the poor, the penniless and the housewives" facing across-the-board price boosts?milk up twopence a pint, jam up 8 pence a pound, sausage up 9 pence, coal up £2 10 shillings...
...Chilean families offered to adopt some of the estimated 5,000 orphaned children. Aid also came from Fidel Castro, who seeks to make common cause with the Peruvian army's radical reform policies. Along with 20 planeloads of Cuban medical supplies and donated blood, Castro sent a pint of his own blood...
...first real down of the day came when I arrived at Arlington from Park. Arlington's a great station-you can change direction there without paying. I sat down at a bench at Arlington and pulled out my package of tiny wieners and half pint of milk. What I really craved was some Cap'n Crunch, but I had to eat my lunch before it got too warm. At this point, my head hurt, and after a few wet wieners, so did my stomach. I wondered what Ralph Cahaly was doing, and if he had any idea that his wieners...