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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if Mr. Charles Mortimer [Dec. 7] and his "factory maids" have given any thought to how mankind should eventually be reincarnated: canned, frozen, made from ready-mix or just plain "cold and serve"? G. E. HASSE...
...formation in Rocky's own New York State of a Nixon Club, with many of President Eisenhower's closest friends as members. Last week, with Rocky in the Midwest, Nixon did it again. At a big Washington Christmas party given by the Nixons, New York Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey, a surprise guest, turned up jauntily, mingled with the high-ranking guests, and started tongues wagging. Afterward, Dewey and Mrs. Dewey were widely noted guests at dinner in the Statler Hilton Hotel, with the Nixons and Attorney General Bill Rogers and his wife. And on Saturday, despite chilling temperatures...
...Butter, No Milk. In such predominantly Catholic regions as Normandy, Brittany and La Vendée, children who attend public schools and their parents are occasionally denied the sacraments. In one Vendée town the curé himself told his congregation: "You have a good laïque teacher, but even if she were a saint, you should not send your children to her." The teacher soon found that children would turn from her in the street, and that farmers refused to sell her butter and milk. In cities the tables are often turned: a child returning from confession...
...price from $200 to $20 a gram before it had a competitor, then licensed so many other manufacturers that last year it had but 17% of the cortisone group market. Not for seven years did Merck recover its $21.8 million investment. Present to support Connor was Dr. E. C. Kendall, formerly at the Mayo Foundation, now at Princeton, one of three researchers who won Nobel Prizes for cortisone. Said Scientist Kendall: "Cortisone could still be just a laboratory curiosity if those who directed Merck & Co. had not had the foresight and courage to persist in trying to make it after...
Upjohn's Dr. E. Gifford Upjohn conceded that the race of drug companies to keep up causes his firm, in line with others, to spend 28.6% of its budget on 1,000 salesmen (out of 5,700 employees), plus other promotional activity. Research costs: 9%. Despite the high overhead, the companies are immensely profitable. The Kefauver subcommittee presented tables showing that the drug companies averaged profits of 21.4% of their net worth, compared with 11% for all U.S. industry. Part of the answer, said the subcommittee, was the pricing policy...