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Morris A. Bealle publishes The Drug Story, reporting on the Rockefeller Foundation's "gifts" to medical schools.

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Bealle reports that the Rockefeller Foundation has itemized the "gifts" it has made to colleges and public agencies over the past 44 years and found that they total over half a billion dollars.

These colleges were provided with funds to further the healthcare strategies defined by the Rockefeller Foundation and to implement a Rockefeller-determined curriculum.

Harvard, with its well-known medical school, received $8,764,433 of Rockefeller's Drug Trust money, Yale received $7,927,800, Johns Hopkins $10,418,531, Washington University in St. Louis $2,842,132, New York's Columbia University $5,424,371, Cornell University $1,709,072 (Bealle, 1949).