Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Squibb to try to mass-produce penicillin, Pfizer was right at home; penicillin could be made only by fermentation. But the process was slow because the mold, which needs air to exist, was being grown only on the surface of a chemical broth at the recovery rate of one unit to 1,000,000 units of broth. Says McKeen: "It was just about the amount of gold you find in sea water." Pfizer worked out a method to grow the penicillin all through the broth by shooting in oxygen, got such a big jump on the other companies that...
...merging type of professional-and-businessman seeks to be and often is an entrepreneur who can exploit special privileges. Among these is the use of both business and professional bureaucracies. The professor sells the prestige of his university to secure market-research jobs in order to build a research unit; he is privileged over commercial agencies because of his connection with the university...
Jordan expressed doubt that this unit would ever start, en masse...
Edward Sullivan, head of the local A.F.L. branch, said that employees here "don't know what they're doing or where they're going. We could organize them into one solid unit, instead of the seven they have now, and that would mean they could get what they wanted...
Contract students are those who enter the NROTC with the agreement that they will serve a maximum of two years in the active reserve after graduation. The new agreement that contract students could either sign or not yesterday requires that they remain in an active unit or reserve unit for at least eight years after graduation...