Word: pints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need for blood plasma was given a great deal of publicity. Today, thousands of lives are still being saved by plasma, only the fact is not so widely publicized. Inadequate supplies, however, have sent the price up to around 25 dollars for plasma equivalent to one pint of whole blood, and often a transfusion will run from 15 to 30 pints. To alleviate the situation, and to provide free plasma for charity cases, the Red Cross is asking for volunteer blood donations from colleges and other organizations. On top of that, just one donation to this Drive will insure...
...week, Geoffrey pays $10 in government taxes and $16 to the building society. He allows himself $5 for lunches-which means, he says, "either I give myself a good feed and nothing to drink, or sandwiches and a pint of wallop [beer]." Mary spends $12 a week for food (50% more than prewar), $4 for local taxes, light and heat. Their 23? meat ration lasts for only two meals, so Mary supplements it with items like mushrooms and canned salmon. This is costly but the Jacksons consider it an investment in good health...
Around the Corner. Minute Maid (retail price: 29? a pint and a half) got into the field first in 1945, at a new $2,300,000 plant in Plymouth, Fla. With little cash to advertise, it lost $450,262 the first two years...
Triplets. With its pint-sized auto, Crosley Motors, Inc. was turning in a jug-sized performance. President Powel Crosley Jr. reported that in twelve months sales ($25,391,627) had more than doubled, net earnings ($1,496,854) had tripled...
Only one Commie candidate was elected to any of the 42 posts on governing bodies and committees. When it was all over, burly Will Lawther, National Union of Mineworkers' anti-Communist president and newly elected head of the T.U.C., sprawled triumphantly over a half pint of beer. "Yer'd have thoert they woor blooody Nazzies," said Will Lawther, "th' way they've been schemin' and skirmishin'-but we've got th' blighters proper licked...