Word: cyanamid
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...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...
Pressure to contain costs has led major drug companies Pfizer, American Cyanamid and Upjohn to announce layoffs of 7,000 employees, to take place over three years. Price limits enforced by managed health-care systems have cut into profits for the firms...
...rival Ciba-Geigy Corp., which now claims more than half the market, in contrast to about 30% for Nicoderm. But Ciba-Geigy, which has already sold more than 70 million Habitrol patches, has been forced to curb promotion and ration its product, allowing newcomer ProStep, introduced by American Cyanamid Co., to grab a 13% market share...