Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cream-colored Beverly Hills mansion, ailing old (87) Publisher William Randolph Hearst spotted a story in his Los Angeles Examiner that set his antivivisectionist blood aboil. Los Angeles medical researchers, he read, were getting stray animals from the city pound under a wartime ordinance permitting their use for "military purposes," and were using them for medical experiments. Hearst set the Examiner off in full cry. With banner headlines and cartoons depicting the "horrors" of vivisection, the Examiner demanded that the ordinance be repealed and that all vivisection in the area be stopped...
...discovery made at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.* The paper had to yank it hastily after discovering that the findings were developed from experiments on dogs. The same day, the Examiner headlined a long-distance interview with the Rev. Carl C. Rasmussen, ex-councilman who had written the wartime dog-pound ordinance. As the Examiner told it, Rasmussen, who was in Des Moines, was "shocked" and "horrified" at the "misuse" of his law. But as Rasmussen told the story, after he hurried to Los Angeles, the Examiner had put a lot of "lies" in his mouth...
...Four 150-pound crews almost made a clean sweep of their first regatta against M.I.T. Saturday afternoon on the Charles. Bert Haines' smooth varsity, junior varsity, and third varsity eights all defeated the Engineers by comfortable margins, but the freshmen rowed the Henley course to a dead heat...
...three of Bert Haines' 150-pound crews will open their season against MIT today on the Charles. The varsity 'fifties are "just average" because of the late start on the river and poor weather conditions, "but Tech rows on the same river," Haines points...
...beneficiaries were happy about price supports. The American Butter Institute, representing producers of 30-40% of the U.S. butter supply, asked Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan to cut support prices by about 3? a pound to the legal premium. "The present level of support prices," said the institute, "discourages consumption...