Word: saves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas Dooley [of Laos]. Not for the extent of his works but for his leadership in the application of the principles that can save...
Three Prices. The subcommittee needled the industry again when it produced Seymour N. Blackman, executive secretary of Premo Pharmaceutical Laboratories of South Hackensack, NJ. Blackman estimated that the U.S. public could save $750 million a year if physicians would use scientific instead of brand names in prescriptions. This year Premo sold the Government prednisone tablets at $20.01 per thousand, while Merck & Co. offered to supply them to the Government at $63.70 per thousand and sold them to druggists at $179, for a retail price...
...applying military-organization methods to the vast complexities of Continental Can. He decentralized Continental's muscle-bound operations, gave wide responsibilities to men in the field. He mapped out staff duties clearly, set up a system of written reports and regular executive meetings (with prepared agenda to save time). Shortly after he took over, he decided that packaging was undergoing a major shift from cans to other materials, acquired more than a dozen firms in glass, plastic and paper products to protect Continental's flank. He spent heavily on research to develop new products, e.g., plastic bottles...
Jonathan D. Reiff '60 presented the Council with a novel plan for a student-run used book mart, designed to save students the reported $150,000 which they annually contribute to local merchants in the form of used book markups...
...Administration had expected, Lowell lost no time in making his policy known. While President Eliot had pleaded in his final report for a sweeping adoption of the three year degree "to save the College," Lowell, in his inaugural address on Oct. 6, 1909, declared, "The most vital measure for saving the College is not to shorten its duration, but to ensure that it shall be worth saving." And from then on, the three year degree was doomed...