Word: pound
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Benson reported that a "coupon plan" to give away a pound of Government butter to U.S. housewives for each one they bought was rejected for its "administrative awkwardness." A "blended price plan" to sell butter to distributors at very low prices might have helped but at best it would merely slow the piling up of surpluses and cost the U.S. $100 million just to administer. Likeliest of all, said Benson, was a "plant payment plan" that would operate much like a version of the old Brannan plan. Under the plant payment plan, the Government would allow the market price...
Fieser is currently doing extensive research on the relation of cancer and tobacco. He is working with hundred-pound lots of cigarette tars. He was one of the first to synthesize carcinogenic hydrocarbons...
...Skinner, have become Professors at Harvard. Since then a steady stream of members has enriched the faculty. Presently, twenty-five--around one quarter of the total number of Fellows--teach here in one capacity or another. Among them are professors Bate, Howard, Homans, Ingalls, Kelleher, Levin, Loomis, McKay Pound and Schlesinger, Jr. Dean Bundy, now an ex-officio member of the Senior Fellows, was also a Junior Fellow and in 1948 published a book on Henry L. Stimson's war service...
...varsity 155-pound crews closed a dismal season Saturday, losing in the preliminary heat of the Eastern Rowing Championships at Princeton, but an undefeated Yardling eight easily topped 11 other freshman eights to win the first championship for Crimson teams this spring...
...pound varsity crew left this morning for Princeton, N.J., to compete with 11 other colleges for the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship. The Crimson, after two straight defeats at the hands of M.I.T. and Princeton, will float a revised lineup Saturday that has changed the entire complexion of the crew for their last race of the year...