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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946
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628 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [ A u g U S t 20. new station wagon body, for the College of Pharmacy D r u g P l a n t Experiment Station, from the H u b Motor Company, at a cost of $1,830.90. 12. Chemicals as follows: 1,000 grams 1 (plus)-lysine monohydrochloride; 500 grams dl-phenylalanine; 500 grams dl-threonine; for the Department of Chemistry, from Merck and Company, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, at a cost of $1,175. 13. Microslide filing cabinet and Autotechnicon, complete with auxiliary equipment, for the Department of Veterinary Pathology and Hygiene, from the Technicon Company, New York, at a cost of $1,399.83. 14. Coal, 1,900 tons 1^-2" screenings, for the Physical Plant Department, from the Taylor-English Coal Company, at a cost of $6,834.30. 15. Forty-two animal cages with stainless steel bodies, for the Animal H o s pital in the College of Medicine, from Western W i r e & Iron W o r k s , Inc., Chicago, at a cost of $5,200. 16. Chemicals, 259 items, for the General Chemical Stores, as follows: J. T . Baker Chemical Co., Chicago $ 188 83 A. Daigger and Co., Chicago 170 94 General Chemical Co., Chicago 2 445 31 Mallinckrodt Chemical W o r k s , St. Louis 565 99 Merck and Co., St. Louis 226 39 E. H . Sargent and Co., Chicago 77 09 Schaar and Co., Chicago 79 95 Wilkens-Anderson Co., Chicago 7168 17. Eight tons all-purpose soft paste white lead, for the Physical Plant Department, from the National Lead Co., Chicago, at a cost of $1,528. 18. Chemicals as follows: 2,000 grams dl-valine; 1,000 grams dl-leucine; 3,000 grams dl-isoleucine; 2,000 grams dl-phenylalanine; 1,000 grams dl-methion i n e ; 1,000 grams dl-threonine; for the Department of Chemistry, from Merck and Co., Inc., Rahway, N . J., at a cost of $2,635 f.o.b. Rahway. 19. Oats, 7,200 bushels No. 2 or better, for the Department of Animal Husbandry, as follows: Unit Bushels Price Total Silver Brothers Elevator, Urbana 3,000 J.64 $1,920 Federal North Iowa Grain Company, Champaign 2,000 .62 1,240 Raymond Douglas, Urbana 2,200 .635 1,397 20. Manual for dairy course, 500 copies, for the Division of University Extension, from Stipes Publishing Company, Champaign, at a cost of $1,095. T h e Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees has also authorized the purchase of 30,000 to 35,000 tons screenings coal for delivery as required during the period from September I, 1945, to June 30, 1946, for the UrbanaChampaign Power Plant, as follows: Tons F.o.b. Mine Freight Delivered Southern Coal Company, St. Louis 7,500 to J1.89 $1.18 ?3-07 10,000 Lafayette Coal Company, Chicago 7,500 to 10,000 1.84 1.30 3.14 Formal requests and specifications were submitted to a number of sources and advertisements published in Chicago papers. N o bids were received on University specifications. Bids were then sought on any basis on which vendors would bid, and quotations were secured from four sources. T h e purchases were authorized on the basis of low bids, quality of coal being considered. While the delivered costs of coal from the two sources are not the same, there is practically no difference when they a r e computed on the basis of the number of B.T.U. for one cent. This report was received for record.
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