Word: sales
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...Texas, which now plans its first major sale of offshore leases since 1953, the decision will mean millions of dollars annually. For Louisiana, it means the possible loss of more than $300 million in past bonuses and royalties from the disputed lands, which last year yielded 29 million bbl. of oil and 174 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. The money is now held in escrow, and Louisiana will seek redress from Congress. It has a few arguing points: if its boundaries extend three miles from the coast, no one has decided where the jagged coastline begins...
Though no longer useful for flags, the stars and stripes on shirts and sheets strike visiting U.S. tourists as a desecration. In Washington last week Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter introduced a bill to stop the manufacture, sale or gift of any type of U.S. flag where its use might "cast contempt." It will probably go through, but until then, Haiti's peasantry will continue to look like a Navy recruiting poster...
...doctors believe that it is wise anyway to reduce the amount of fats and related substances, notably cholesterol, in their patients' bloodstreams. Last week Cincinnati's. William S. Merrell Co. announced that it is start ing general distribution of a cholesterol-cutting chemical just approved (for prescription sale only) by the Food and Drug Administration. The chemical: triparanol, trade-named MER/2^. The makers claim that a single capsule daily will drop the blood cholesterol of 80% of patients to near normal, and presumably safer, levels...
PORTABLE TRANSISTOR TV with 19-in. screen will be put on sale by Motorola Inc. New suitcase-size model is first big-screen transistorized portable. It weighs 40 Ibs., including a 5-lb. energy cell that provides five to six hours' operation, can be recharged up to 500 times from regular electrical outlet. Price...
...first big success, he says, came in 1934 when he developed all-color double nasturtiums a year ahead of the competition. Sweet peas used to be the root of the Burpee flower business. When their sale fell off in the '305, Burpee decided that the public wanted marigolds. There was one big problem: they all smelled bad. One day he received a letter from a missionary offering him for $25 an ounce Tibetan marigold seeds that did not smell. Burpee accepted, found the plants had no smell, but unfortunately had runty blossoms, only one good bloom. Realizing that...