Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hang on to its biggest customers, Morton Salt Co. had been giving extraordinarily large trade discounts. Unconvinced that this had any relation to real savings in Morton's costs, FTC had charged that the discounts were unfair to smaller buyers. The Supreme Court in effect had ordered Morton Salt to stick to a uniform price list for big & small alike. Reasoned one businessman: "If everyone does stick to his price list and the price lists gravitate to a common level, as they will be compelled to do under the economic law of uniform price, then, according to the Supreme...
Baruna was a boat to warm an old salt's heart. She liked it rough, with seas kicking up and a breeze with some weight in it. Soon after she cleared Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship for last week's long 635-mile thrash to Bermuda, the wind veered into the northeast. It blew harder as the night wore on. At dawn, Baruna's crew began shortening sail; the jigger was doused and later the mainsail was taken in. With only a Genoa jib set, she boiled along ahead of 35 rival ocean racers...
...Privacy. Correspondents worth their salt generally stayed away from Convention Hall the first two days, at least-leaving the press boxes to the wire association men (who had to be there), publishers and their wives, and some journalistic trained seals. Even when the balloting started, many newsmen preferred to watch from the press lounge on the second floor, where three television sets, air conditioning and gallons of free beer (courtesy of the Pennsylvania Railroad) made the proceedings easier to swallow-and to follow (see TELEVISION...
...Denver's Dr. Frank Rodney Drake believes a whole group of illnesses should be labeled iatrogenic, which means: 1. Caused by microbes. 2. Doctor-caused. 3. Caused by lack of salt. 4. Caused by dry air. 5. Caused by shock...
Rice diet? Dr. Goldring believes that experiments with this diet have proved nothing at all. Low salt diet? "A treatment of doubtful value." Sympathectomy (cutting nerves leading to the body's small blood vessels)? It has not yet been shown to have much effect, but is "a highly desirable clinical experiment." Removal of one kidney? Only for conditions that would make surgeons take it out anyway...