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...adviser gig Chuck landed for the 1990 film Arachnophobia. So for most of the past decade, Chuck handed scaled-back day-to-day operations of Spider Pharm to Anita--a former machinist from Czechoslovakia who has become as smitten as her husband with spiders--while he worked for American Cyanamid, helping the company investigate spider venom for possible use in new insecticides...
...Chuck wasn't very happy with the work or the management turnover at American Cyanamid, and last year he returned full time to his true calling--"to make venom widely available for research." To better carry out this mission, he has branched out geographically, developing new supplies of venom from as far away as China and Kazakhstan. Spiders are everywhere, he says, and you never know which one will lead to a scientific or medical breakthrough...
...June 1962, gored corporate oxen all over the country. Even before publication, Carson was violently assailed by threats of lawsuits and derision, including suggestions that this meticulous scientist was a "hysterical woman" unqualified to write such a book. A huge counterattack was organized and led by Monsanto, Velsicol, American Cyanamid--indeed, the whole chemical industry--duly supported by the Agriculture Department as well as the more cautious in the media. (TIME's reviewer deplored Carson's "oversimplifications and downright errors...Many of the scary generalizations--and there are lots of them--are patently unsound...
Just last week, American Home Products, a sprawling outfit whose wares range from Anacin to Chef Boyardee spaghetti and meatballs, launched an $8.5 billion hostile bid for pharmaceutical maker American Cyanamid. At $95 a share, the offer was fully $32 a share more than Cyanamid's recent trading price, which made its shareholders the envy of Wall Street. Moreover, the staggering bid arrived while investors were still humming with reports that the Norfolk Southern railroad was in talks to acquire Conrail, once a sickly ward of the government but now a healthy freight hauler, in a deal that would create...
American Home Products made a surprise $8.5 billion bid for American Cyanamid, as the global pharmaceutical industry continued its breakneck pace of consolidation in the face of impending health reform. The proposed hostile takeover would be one of the largest in recent history...