Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which is fairly convenient to the places to go and things to do. She can catch one of a number of trains back. If you go to visit her without means of automotive transport, there is a limited number of prospects before you. Two, in fact. Visiting the corner drug store for a soda and walking around the dimly lit and grassy shores of Lake Waban. The latter type of entertainment is recommended for them...
Sales of new cars, used cars and jalopies all hit bottom again last week. All over the U.S. the story was the same: gas rationing and the tire shortage have made cars a drug on the market. Only active buyers are the steelmakers; last month they swarmed through junkyards, snapped up 400,000 old cars at prices ranging from...
There is no vaccine against sleeping sickness, but the powerful arsenic drug tryparsamide, which kills syphilis spirochetes, also kills the trypanosomes of sleeping sickness. Developed in the Rockefeller Institute in 1919, and introduced to Africa by Dr. Louise Pearce in the '20s, tryparsamide clears up sleeping sickness in three to six months when injected twice a week. General Sicé's biggest job was persuading the natives to take the treatment. He also organized fly-killing squads. With this curative and preventive program, in 17 years General Sicé brought down the sleeping-sickness toll from...
...Walgreen earned $3,097,000 from its chain of 325 stores, while the new supercombine known as Drug, Inc., in which United Drug was a member, had $17,000,000 profits. United's outlets were the 568 directly owned stores of the Liggett chain, some 10,000 "Rexall" independents. The grandiose Drug, Inc. merger contained many a great manufacturing name -Vick Chemical, Sterling Products (Bayer's Aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria), Life Savers, Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Rubberset brushes, Ipana). But the vital retail end limped almost from the start. Long-term leases...
...United Drug, going it alone, bought back the Liggett chain in the bankruptcy proceedings, but its profit situation remained sour. Last year United's total assets were almost exactly twice those of Walgreen; but Walgreen chalked up $3,300,000 income against $2,500,000 for United...