Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fluffy, white powder. The process is remarkably simple. But even with the cooperation of non-Armour stockyards, the Armour Laboratories can get so far only about 125,000 hog pituitaries a week-enough to make five ounces of ACTH. All the hogs slaughtered in the U.S. would not yield much more than a pound a week...
Farmer Gehring, the biggest U.S. grower of mint, last week was in the midst of harvesting his highly profitable crop. From his 2,500 acres of spearmint and peppermint he expected to gross close to $600,000, almost double what the same acreage would yield in corn...
...halves (TIME, May 17, 1948 et seq.). But the three other members of filmdom's "Big Five"-Loew's Inc., 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.-decided to continue fighting Justice's antimonopoly suit. Although they knew they would probably have to yield in the end, the longer they could stave off the splitup the more money they might make from continuing to show their own pictures in their own chain theaters...
Though liquor sales were already down about 20% from last year, other distillers tried to hold their price line, insisting that taxes, the biggest item (over 50%) in the cost of liquor, would have to come down before prices could yield much more...
...this point the scientists use the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei. When certain materials (e.g., lithium fluoride) are placed in a strong magnetic field, the nuclei of their atoms also line up. When the magnetism is removed, the lithium fluoride gets colder. This method promises to yield a temperature only one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero...