Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nightmare started in the West German town of Stolberg, near Aachen, in 1954, when laboratory chemists synthesized the drug for the firm of Chemie Gruenenthal GmbH. After three years of testing with animals, thalidomide was judged so safe that it was approved for over-the-counter sale, with no prescription needed, throughout West Germany...
...suited for calming down anxious, nervous and restless children . . . Excellent for babies." Obstetricians who found that it tranquilized pregnant women prescribed it to allay morning sickness. Consumption shot up in many countries. Last April, the Canadian subsidiary of Cincinnati's Wm. S. Merrell Co. put it on prescription sale in Canada...
White House Watchdog. Under the Kennedy plan, Congress would authorize the creation of a privately owned company-called the Communications Satellite Corp.-which would be financed through public sale of securities. Its activities would be overseen by a committee of Government watchdogs reporting directly to the President...
...Gard Wiggins, Administrative vice-President of the University, said last last night that, in view of Mt. Auburn's decision, Harvard will complete the sale of the Stillman site to Dupree immediately. He said that "the University is delighted that the land will be developed to provide tax revenue for the city of Cambridge...
...agreement with the Mt. Auburn Hospital may destroy University hopes to provide tax revenue for the City through the sale of the Stillman Infirmary plot to a private developer...